Summary
Zach Scott is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over 20 years of software development experience and 14 years in senior leadership roles, currently serving as Co-Founder and CEO of Protocol Technologies. Previously he spent 12 years as Vice President of Programming and General Manager at Yardi Systems, where he led global engineering teams and delivered major products spanning IoT platforms, property intelligence, and AI/ML initiatives. He has a proven track record of scaling agile teams, shaping product roadmaps, and guiding architecture across domains including real estate, energy accounting, e‑commerce, and embedded systems. Zach combines hands‑on coding and systems design experience from roots at WindRiver and TransCanada with executive operational experience as CTO/COO at Point2, giving him rare fluency across engineering, product, and business operations. Based in Saskatoon, he is as comfortable defining strategic direction as mentoring distributed teams to ship complex, data‑driven platforms. An early builder of componentized UI libraries and device management systems, he brings deep technical curiosity to frontier areas like IoT and ML-driven productization.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Calgary