Summary
Zack Gow is a CTO and co-founder with a decade of experience building data-driven products and teams, currently leading orita.ai to cut email and SMS marketing waste for DTC brands using ML to suppress junk and unengaged profiles. He combines hands-on data science and ML engineering with practical product instincts from consulting for startups across ecommerce, logistics, robotics, adtech, and fintech. Prior roles include founding consumer goods brand illo and researching quantum ML, reflecting a mix of entrepreneurship, applied research, and production ML. As a mentor at Udacity and an experienced builder of ETL/BI stacks, he focuses on turning models into reliable, cost-saving pipelines. Based in Baltimore, he pairs a Georgia Tech CS master's and Lehigh engineering background with a pragmatic, experiment-first approach to reducing operational waste. Colleagues would note he’s “just trying to work on cool stuff” — and consistently finds ways to make it pay for itself.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree (M.S.) Computer Science, Master’s Degree (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Technical Entrepreneurship, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Technical Entrepreneurship at Lehigh University