Zach Sabin
Director, Otter Flight at Starfish Space
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZach Sabin is a seasoned software and flight systems leader with a decade of experience building mission-driven products at the intersection of robotics, aerospace, and large-scale platforms. Currently Director of Otter Flight at Starfish Space, he advanced through flight software leadership roles to steer spacecraft avionics and operational software. His background includes senior engineering work on payments and customer support infrastructure at Airbnb and early-stage NLP/document processing at Everlaw, showing comfort across distributed systems and data-heavy pipelines. Trained in computer science and robotics at Johns Hopkins with graduate aerospace studies at the University of Washington, he blends theoretical aerospace rigor with pragmatic software delivery. Known for hands-on mentorship and cross-domain problem solving, he also brings adventurous grit—evidenced by a 115-day, 2,600-mile thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Masters Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of WashingtonJohns Hopkins University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
25reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (9)
ruby9
rails9
apache-spark6
jpa6
hibernate6
amazon-s36
mysql6
java6
coercion1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zpaines/fantasy_blog
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
zpaines/EyeInHand
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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