Zachary Sheffield
Hardware Design Engineer at Rincon Research Corporation
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Sheffield is a hardware design engineer with 13 years of experience, currently designing mixed-signal and embedded systems at Rincon Research in Tucson. He brings deep analog and digital expertise—from power supplies, EMC, and RF to FPGAs, μprocessors, and high-speed VHDL designs—paired with practical software skills in Python, C/C++, Perl, and JavaScript. His background includes progressive hardware roles and team leadership at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, where he bridged technical work and executive communication. Zachary holds an MSEE from Ohio University and graduated top of his class with a BSEE from BYU–Idaho, where he also built a digital circuit simulator used for teaching. He combines rigorous engineering discipline with hands-on project delivery and a flair for bringing hardware and software together into reliable embedded products. Outside engineering, he has a musical background in jazz studies, reflecting a broad creative curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, A, Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, A at Ohio UniversityBrigham Young University-IdahoMinor in Jazz Studies, Guitar & Piano, Minor in Jazz Studies, Guitar & Piano at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (11)
multiprecision8
fixed-point8
decimal8
function-pointers6
floating-point6
data-structures6
filesystem6
export-to-excel6
arduino6
python6
xlsxwriter6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
zks0002/fixedpoint
Jul 2020 - Dec 2023
Fixed point arithmetic python package
Contributions:1 push, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
arithmeticpythonmultiprecisionpointinterval-arithmetic
Schweitzer-Engineering-Laboratories/fixedpoint
Jun 2020 - Jan 2024
Fixed point arithmetic python package
Contributions:1 PR, 5 comments, 2 issues in 3 years 7 months
arithmeticpythonmultiprecisionpointprecision
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