Zack Meacham

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Zack Meacham

Software engineer with experience spanning critical test-infrastructure systems, frontier-AI adoption, and modern product software. Strongest when the work demands architecture, judgment, and the ability to move between deep technical work and clear communication.

zdmeacham@gmail.com

Findlay, Ohio

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Experience

CTO

Ledger

2026 – present

  • Leading technical direction for a civic-tech product focused on transparency, literacy, and usability across political data and workflows.
  • Own architecture and implementation across frontend UX, data contracts, provenance and citation behavior, testing infrastructure, rate limiting, CI, and product-definition work.
  • Set the testing, CI, and data-contract foundations early so the codebase stays shippable and defensible as it grows.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • CI

Software Engineer 2

The Boeing Company · Boeing Guidance Repair Center · Heath, Ohio

Previously Systems Engineer 2 and Systems Engineer 1.

Sep 2022 – present

  • Lead or shape three major engineering efforts across high-stakes test infrastructure, spanning software, systems, instrumentation, and public-safe technical communication.
  • Helped originate the largest active modernization effort in my organization by framing system risk, building the case, and presenting the path forward to senior stakeholders.
  • Built a new production-facing calibration-equipment software suite from scratch and led the software strategy for a legacy LabVIEW instrumentation overhaul under real constraints.
  • Serve as a primary internal resource for frontier-AI adoption across two organizations, and have mentored both an intern and an early-career software engineer.
  • Received Boeing recognition awards for engineering impact and production-level acceptance success.
  • Ada
  • C++
  • LabVIEW
  • Requirements engineering
  • Hardware integration
  • Stakeholder communication

Volunteer contributor, ML / Data Science

Pillar.gg

Dec 2021 – Mar 2022

  • Contributed to a startup's automated editing product while finishing my computer science degree.
  • Worked on feature engineering, structured-data analysis, and research into deeper ML and audio-processing capabilities.
  • Python
  • Feature engineering
  • ML research

Education

Kent State University

B.S. Computer Science · Cum Laude

Aug 2018 – May 2022

  • Coursework included machine learning, deep learning, AI, big data analytics, linear algebra, software engineering, and requirements engineering.
  • Senior capstone focused on recommendation-pipeline and database design work for a social-media aggregation web app.

Skills

Languages
Python · TypeScript · LabVIEW · Ada · C++
AI / tooling
Claude API · Agentic workflows · MCP · Prompt engineering · RAG · Custom skills
Systems
Legacy modernization · Instrumentation · Requirements engineering · Cross-discipline systems
Product
Architecture · Testing strategy · Operator tooling · Technical writing