Summary
Zachary Reinhardt is a design engineer and multi-domain systems developer with 13 years of experience building and flight-testing avionics, wearable systems, and embedded firmware. He has led hardware and vehicle management system design on DARPA and hypersonic programs, accumulated over 250 hours of flight test time, and served as hardware-in-the-loop technical lead for complex flight systems. His background spans patent engineering and hands-on firmware/hardware development, from novel wearable sensor arrays to energy meter redesigns that delivered multimillion-dollar savings. Now at MIT Lincoln Laboratory after leading VMS efforts at Aurora and avionics integration at SpaceWorks, he combines rapid prototyping instincts with rigorous V&V and flight test execution. Based in Austin, he’s the kind of engineer who moves between lab benches, launchpads, and patent portfolios—and describes himself on GitHub as a “log₁₀x developer,” hinting at a playful, metric-driven approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Student Bioengineering, PhD Student Bioengineering at Clemson University
Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering Technology Mathematics, Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering Technology Mathematics at Southern Polytechnic State University