Zac Staples
Founder And CEO at Caliburn Technologies
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolZac Staples is a founder and CEO who has translated 22 years of U.S. Navy operational experience into building Fathom5, an Austin-based industrial cybersecurity and actuator company delivering AI-enabled, cyber-resilient systems for maritime and defense edge use cases. Since 2018 he has led continuous growth and profitability while securing 17 patents and achieving the first program-of-record AI deployment aboard a Navy warship. A former Director of the Center for Cyber Warfare and Naval Postgraduate School faculty, he combines hands-on engineering leadership with applied research into shipboard electronics and industrial control systems. Zac’s work sits at the nexus of hardware, cyber resilience, and AI optimization, with a practical focus on ports, ships, and insurers. He is pragmatic about mission-driven innovation and notable for moving classified maritime cyber concepts into deployable commercial and defense products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Engineering, B.S. Engineering at United States Naval AcademyM.A. International Relations, M.A. International Relations at Naval Postgraduate School
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Github Skills (56)
programming-language10
go10
golang10
encoder9
interpreter9
interrupt9
decoder9
odin8
passenger8
compiler8
julia8
haversine8
gadfly8
points8
machine-learning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FATHOM5/haversine
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Haversine is a Go package that finds the shortest great circle route between to points on the earth.
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
golanggo-packagehaversineearthgo
zacsketches/Arduino_Vector
Jun 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 4 years 4 months
stlstl-vectorvectorarduino
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