Zack Maclennan
Electrical Engineering Manager at Kepler Communications Inc.
Town of Cochrane, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolZack Maclennan is an experienced electrical engineering manager with 13 years designing and delivering robust PCBAs for consumer and aerospace products, currently leading Kepler’s hardware design team for LEO satellites. A CID+ certified PCB designer, he is fluent in rigid and flex substrates and has taken boards from simple 2–4 layer FR-4 to 20+ layer HDI, RF-specific stackups, and high-speed SoC designs. His hands-on background spans startups and hyperscalers—spearheading products at North (now Google), ecobee, and Google AR—so he blends deep layout expertise with pragmatic manufacturing and test-focused leadership (DFM, DFA, DFT). Known for pushing board technology boundaries, he’s equally comfortable optimizing cost, EMC, and dense via strategies as he is mentoring teams to ship flight-ready hardware. Based in Cochrane, Alberta, he brings a practical, inventive approach to complex hardware challenges rooted in a Waterloo engineering foundation.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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