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Zachary Taira's Current Workplace
Saildrone IncCompany Size
51-300
Amount Raised
$189.5M
Saildrone provides comprehensive turnkey data solutions for maritime security, ocean mapping, and ocean data. The company provides real-time access to critical data from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and uses proprietary software applications to transform that data into actionable insights and intelligence. Saildrone’s fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), powered by renewable wind and solar power, have a minimal carbon footprint and are designed to make ocean intelligence cost-effective at scale. Saildrones operate 24/7/365, without the need for a crewed support vehicle, and have sailed over 750,000 nautical miles from the Arctic to the Antarctic and spent more than 17,000 days at sea in the harshest ocean conditions on the planet.
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Notable Investors
Horizons Ventures, Lux Capital, Tribe Capital, Bond, Emerson Collective
SaaS
Big Data
Geospatial
Wind Energy
Marine Technology
Autonomous Vehicles
Experience
Software Engineer: Technical Infrastructure
Saildrone Inc · Full-time
Sep 2021 - Present
• 3 yrs 8 mos• Brought automated test station management to the manufacturing line
• Oversaw build system migration from legacy Bazel to modern Python, reducing incremental build times from 5+ minutes to 4s (98%)
• Set up, configured, and wrote prototype tests for Saildrone’s low-volume, high-mix prototype/production manufacturing environments
Skills: Ansible · Bash · docker · Python
Software Engineer: Systems Integration and Validation
Starry, Inc. · Full-time
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
• 2 yrs 3 mos• Automated testing of Starry SHF/EHF radio hardware and customer-premises equipment using Python
• Wrote Ansible modules and Python services to facilitate reproducible management of SIV testing network and Starry manufacturing line
• Managed code deployments and hardware provisioning for 250+ virtual and physical hosts
Software Engineer Co-op
IBM Resilient
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
• 7 mos• Wrote and tested a test harness to verify IBM Resilient’s command-line output
• Storyboarded, wrote, and tested a prototype Chrome extension for highlighting Indicators of Compromise in IBM Resilient Incident Response Platform
• Migrated production front-end code from CoffeeScript to TypeScript while ensuring no regression bugs were introduced
Sales Engineer Co-op
Resilient, an IBM Company
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
• 7 mos• Ran technical presentations for numerous Fortune 500 and countless smaller companies in order to accelerate the B2B sales cycle
• Built custom scripts to demonstrate functionality of Resilient Systems Incident Response Platform for current and prospective customers
Undergraduate Research Assistant
SMILE Lab (Synergetic Media Learning Lab)
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
• 1 yr• Helped build the largest public kinship image dataset to date (Families in the Wild), consisting of over 13,000 family photos and 1,000 unique family trees
• Delegated tasks to fellow students to ensure image collection standards and deadlines were met
• Composed Python scripts to compile dataset statistics in order to provide up-to-date progress reports
Orientation Leader
Northeastern University
May 2015 - Sep 2015
• 5 mos• Led icebreakers and teambuilding activities for thousands of incoming students and university guests
• Facilitated conversations about transition issues while maintaining an inclusive, supportive atmosphere
• Managed setup, preparation, and teardown-related duties to ensure logistical aspects of orientation ran smoothly
Education
- 2014 - 2019Northeastern UniversityMaster of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 2014Punahou School