# Zach K. > Engineering @ Hyperscale | Ex-SWE @ Samsara, Veyo Logistics, Qualcomm Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zachk ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Hyperscale Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Building the AI Agent Platform for Logistics ### Senior Software Engineer II @ Samsara Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area • Guided and helped bootstrap multiple full-stack teams to ship new software-based workflows products (Connected Forms, Issues, Training) • Responsible for long-term architecture design, project management, implementation, and mentorship. Go, GraphQL, MySQL, TypeScript, React, React-Native, GRPC, Docker, Datadog, Databricks, S3, Git, Buildkite, AWS, Crashlytics, Sentry, Codepush, JIRA, Confluence, Airtable ### Software Engineering Manager @ Samsara Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Led the mobile app product and infra teams (6-8 engineers) as we grew users 4x from 75k to 300k DAU. • Led the compliance workflow team (5 engineers) to support new US and Canada hours of service rules. • Drove OKR and roadmap planning - leveraging insights from data in Databricks, Datadog, Sentry, Crashlytics, and customer feedback. • Drove reliability, observability, performance, and release process improvements. • Reduced mobile app crash rates by 50%. React Native, Typescript, Go, GraphQL, Databricks, Datadog, Tableau, Firebase, Crashlytics, Sentry, Airtable, JIRA, Codepush ### Member of Technical Staff / Senior Software Engineer II @ Samsara Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States • Led compliance features team (5-6 engineers) as we implemented US and Canada hours of service rulesets in our cross-platform backend and mobile rules engine, including offline support in mobile. • Led compliance features port during the year-long effort to rewrite our React-Native driver app. • Built school bus / student tracking features for vehicle fleets utilizing the company's vehicle gateways, NFC card scanners, and camera hardware. • Development was full-stack across backend Go services, React-Native iOS and Android driver app, and our React web portals for drivers and fleet managers. • Occasionally built infrastructure for mobile, monitoring, and continuous integration as needed. Go, GraphQL, MySQL, React, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Datadog, Docker, Buildkite ### Platform Lead Software Engineer @ Veyo Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California, United States • Responsible for improving systems scalability, performance, reliability, monitoring, and dev process. • Responsible for leading and mentoring the platform team through new market and feature rollouts. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Veyo Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California, United States • Implemented automated trip brokerage to 3rd party transportation providers and independent driver providers, based on predictive supply and demand models provided by the data science team. • Built a backend cloud service to manage and centralize address and location data. • Developed various aspects of the company's real-time trip dispatching systems. • Developed various backend REST endpoints for customer web portals and mobile apps. C#, .NET, MS SQL, Azure (Queues, Service Bus, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services), ASP.NET Web API, SignalR, AutoFac, Serilog, Elastic Search, MongoDB, Typescript, Kibana, Tableau, Visual Studio 2015, Fiddler, Postman, JIRA, Confluence, Git, SourceTree, Bitbucket, Slack Integrations, Jenkins ### Senior Software Engineer @ Qualcomm Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Diego, California, United States • Designed and implemented application to analyze power and system tests with support for timeline analysis, interactive visualizations, and acceptance criteria configuration. • Led team of 3 automation engineers to automate power testing for snapdragon chipsets on android. • Developed library of UI controls for consistent styling across company’s external-facing applications. • Developed a drag and drop interface for creating and running audio processing algorithms. ### Software Engineer @ Qualcomm Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | San Diego, California, United States • Worked with mobile chipset teams to provide automated solutions for power, timeline, and thermal profiling for Android, Windows, and QNX mobile devices. • Designed and implemented application to simplify automation of Android UI testing by recording user interactions in a screen mirrored environment and saving interactions to a script. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Telluride Asset Management Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Wayzata, Minnesota, United States Built app that allowed algorithmic stock traders to consolidate multiple trading applications into a single user interface that supported workspace configurations and the ability to add new applications as plugins. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Maverick Software Consulting Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Collaborated with Thomson Reuters to replace a legacy web-based reporting system. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Stat-Ease Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Developed charts and reports for a statistics application designed to optimize scientific experiments. ## Education ### Bachelors in Computer Science University of Minnesota ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zkohl - Portfolio: http://galleryz.io - GitHub: http://github.com/zkohl --- Source: https://flows.cv/zachk JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zachk/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29