Zach Kron
Chief Technology Officer at Autodesk
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Kron is a technology leader and CTO with 13 years in software and over two decades leading design and product efforts at zachzacks designworks and Autodesk, where he progressed from software analyst to Senior Principal Product Manager. He blends architectural training from MIT with a background in fine arts and design, bringing a rare mix of design thinking and product-led engineering to infrastructure and developer-facing tools. At Autodesk he led product lines and strategy, while continuing hands-on contributions to open-source projects like Dynamo, where he improved real-world design workflows such as solar radiation sampling. Based in Somerville, MA, he specializes in turning complex multidisciplinary problems—bridging building design, simulation, and software—into usable workflows and shipped products. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who pairs deep domain knowledge of built environments with practical product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M. Arch, Architecture, M. Arch, Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA, Fine Arts, Sociology and Anthropology, BA, Fine Arts, Sociology and Anthropology at Swarthmore College
Github Skills (7)
amazon-dynamodb10
visual-programming10
dynamodb10
visual-programming-language10
aws-dynamodb10
bim8
revit8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DynamoDS/Dynamo
Apr 2013 - Jun 2018
Open Source Graphical Programming for Design
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:230 commits, 4 PRs, 43 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the "dynamo" project by updating and fixing aspects of solar radiation samples. The commits show changes to files containing node definitions and data, indicating the user's work focused on modifying existing visual programming graphs within the Dynamo environment. The user implemented features like adding pauses in sample workflows and appears to have worked on improving the functionality of existing samples.
graphical-programminggraphicaldynamo-apidynamovisualprogramming
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