Zachary Potter
Senior Flight Controls Engineer at Joby Aviation
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolZachary Potter is a Senior Flight Controls Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in control theory, embedded systems, and robotics, currently advancing flight control algorithms for electric aircraft at Joby Aviation in Boulder. He combines hands-on firmware and C++ system design with data-driven system identification from his work on robotic joint testing and real-time sensor pipelines. A UC Santa Cruz alumnus with both BS and MS-level training in computer and electrical engineering, he has a track record of mentoring students and building tools that bridge hardware and software. Notably, his background includes developing utilities to translate Verilog into a new hardware description language and creating multi-process, EtherCAT‑based data visualization systems—skills that give him an unusual fluency across avionics, mechatronics, and embedded networking.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (8)
asic9
fpga9
hdl9
synthesis9
simulation9
hardware8
simulator8
infrastructure6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
zacharypotter/ip-geo-lookup
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
masc-ucsc/livehd
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Live Hardware Development (LiveHD), a productive infrastructure for Synthesis and Simulation
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes in 4 months
asichdlsynthesisinfrastructuresimulation
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.