Summary
Zach Brock is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 16 years of experience building hardware-enabled consumer products, networking infrastructure, and AI-powered media systems. He co-founded Common Networks (acquired by Meta) to deliver fiber-class internet at a fraction of the cost, scaled Square from its early startup days into a 1200+ person company, and later led large teams at Meta focused on Quest engagement and growth. More recently he served as Head of Engineering and briefly CEO at Adept before joining OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff working on VideoGen and ImageGen, blending deep systems, product, and machine learning know-how. Zach combines hands-on engineering fluency with CEO-level strategy and operational experience, and his career shows a pattern of tackling technically hard, deployment-heavy problems end-to-end. Based in San Francisco, he holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Olin College.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering