Zachary Eveland
System Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Eveland is a System Engineering Program Manager at Apple with 14 years of hands-on experience designing, prototyping, and bringing complex electronics products to market. An electrical engineer by training, he has led cross-disciplinary teams through NPI for medical, consumer, industrial, and public-art systems, pairing circuit and PCB design with embedded firmware and manufacturing transitions. His open-source contributions to the Arduino ecosystem — helping add ATmega32U4/Leonardo support and stabilizing the Ethernet library — reveal a deep practical engagement with embedded networking and bootloader tooling. Zachary combines technical leadership, project management, and client-facing account management from his consultancy and startup background, including bootstrapping a wearable-electronics venture to profitability. Based in Seattle, he brings both rigorous engineering discipline and a maker’s curiosity, often accelerating projects through rapid prototyping and creative integration of hardware and software.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering Technology, BS Electrical Engineering Technology at Texas Tech UniversityMPS Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York UniversityExchange Student, Exchange Student at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English
Github Skills (22)
bootloader10
c-language10
controller10
c-programming10
microcontroller10
ethernet10
avr10
u-boot10
sys10
network-protocol10
boot10
loader10
embedded10
protocols10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arduino/ArduinoCore-avr
Aug 2011 - Nov 2012
The Official Arduino AVR core
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:277 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zachary's commits focused on supporting the ATMEGA32U4 microcontroller by implementing support for the 32u4 and Leonardo pins, as well as uploading and bootloader programming. They modified the pins_arduino.h file, which included changes to ADC channel mapping, digital pin to port mapping, and digital pin to bit mask. Additionally, the user worked on the bootloaders/diskloader project for the 32u4, contributing to both source code and binary updates.
avratmegaarduino
arduino/Arduino
Aug 2011 - May 2013
Arduino IDE 1.x
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:222 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Zachary contributed to the Arduino IDE 1.x repository by implementing support for 32u4 and Leonardo pins, including uploading and bootloader programming. They also made modifications to the diskloader to add the source code and binary for 32u4, increasing the bootloader delay, and fixing a bug that could prevent sketch restarts.
arduino-ideidearduino
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