Zachary Crockett is a senior engineering manager and three-time CTO with roughly 14–20 years of experience building distributed software and embedded systems across a dozen+ languages and hardware stacks. He has founded two startups, led teams of up to 35 engineers, and now directs firmware and systems engineering at Sofar Ocean, blending cloud-native and IoT expertise. His background spans product-to-manufacturing cycles—firmware, electronics, and production—giving him rare end-to-end ownership from silicon to scale. Trained as a composer with advanced music degrees, he brings a creative, systems-oriented approach to engineering and an abiding interest in quantum computing that informs his long-term technical vision.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Music Composition Computer Science, PhD Music Composition Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Johns Hopkins University
BMus Music Composition, BMus Music Composition at Vanderbilt University
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