Zach Lacelle
Head Of Product At Forterra
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Lacelle is a product and autonomy leader with over a decade building and architecting mobile autonomy systems across defense and commercial programs. Currently Head of Product at Forterra, he blends hands-on expertise in ROS, Linux, C++, and Python with systems and MBSE-driven architecture to guide safe, scalable autonomous transportation. His career spans technical lead roles at Robotic Research and MITRE—where he led a ground autonomous vehicle lab—and hands-on program delivery from multi-agent fleets to single-platform solutions. Colleagues know him for bridging strategic product vision with deep implementation experience, and for staying technically sharp while scaling teams and roadmaps. An unusual strength is his combined focus on messaging-framework-agnostic autonomy architectures and practical security/hardening from running IT and FSO responsibilities.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (131)
simulator10
nagios10
zfs10
ros10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
lists10
pool10
sdk9
localization9
computer-vision9
image-processing9
unreal-engine-49
simulation9
imitation-learning9
hardware9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mitre/kvh_geo_fog_3d-release
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:140 pushes, 106 branches in 1 year 6 months
zlacelle/nagios_check_zfs_linux
Jan 2016 - Mar 2021
Nagios plugin to check ZFS pool in the Linux environment
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 50 commits in 5 years 2 months
nagios-pluginpoollinuxzfsnagios
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