Zachary Wade
CTO at CompassRx
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Wade is a hands-on CTO and founding engineer with 12 years of experience building products that bridge hardware, machine learning, and security, now leading engineering at CompassRx to modernize pharmacy. He previously helped take Zensors from research to a commercial ML-for-vision SaaS and co-founded Nuvo, bringing productization and go-to-market experience across startups. His background includes internships at Google and Jane Street, and a CMU CS degree, reflecting strong foundations in systems and algorithmic thinking. An active security-minded developer, Zachary has contributed CTF write-ups and reverse-engineering analyses for Plaid Parliament of Pwning, showing practical expertise in crypto and exploitation not obvious from his product roles. He combines a maker’s love of hardware and breaking things with pragmatic leadership that ships reliable, secure systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
ctf10
reverse-engineering10
cryptography10
c119
exploit9
c179
assembly8
assembler8
des7
python7
sql3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pwning/public-writeup
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
CTF write-ups by Plaid Parliament of Pwning
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zachary's commits primarily involve write-ups for Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges, focusing on reverse engineering, cryptography, and web exploitation. They provided a write-up for a Hitcon CTF challenge, analyzing and documenting vulnerabilities. The user demonstrated expertise in analyzing compiled code (sha1.c) and the vulnerabilities of cryptography applications. This indicates a focus on identifying, understanding, and documenting security flaws.
ctfplaid
bluepichu/roadrunner
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 12 PRs, 25 pushes in 10 months
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