Zach Conn
Discipline Chief Engineer at Collins Aerospace
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Conn is a seasoned engineering leader and machine learning specialist with 13 years of experience building high-scale, production systems for aviation. He co-founded FlightAware’s core infrastructure and ML-powered Foresight product as CTO, then led the integration and growth of FlightAware into Collins Aerospace. At Collins he created and scaled the Aviation Intelligence organization, turned multi-million-dollar deficits into profitable products, and drove company-wide DevSecOps and AI coding assistant initiatives. Now Discipline Chief Engineer, Zach shapes cross-discipline technical strategy for 20k+ engineers across software, mechanical, electrical and materials domains. His background in mathematics and early research in geometric analysis and distributed probabilistic algorithms underpins a pragmatic, research-informed approach to applied ML and systems design. Colleagues describe him as a curious hacker who translates deep technical insight into operational impact at enterprise scale.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics at Rice UniversityIndependent University of Moscow
Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zpconn/zachconn
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:28 pushes in 5 years 2 months
zpconn/cuboctahedron
Jun 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:563 pushes in 12 days
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