# Zach Wadzinski > Software @ Zipline Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zachwadzinski Hardware/software hacker. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Zipline Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Flight Test Lead @ Zipline Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Flight Test Ops @ Zipline Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led Droid Flight Test, Zip <> Droid Integration Test, Pre-EV bring-up Test, Reality in the Loop (HIL but a Zip). - First to do many things when it comes to flying a Zip. ### Side Project @ rethread Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area - Find the clothes you want, fast. Download on iOS. - I thought Google's Image Search feature at the time was lack luster. So I built this. Not on the App Store anymore because it was more expensive to run than the amount of customers I served. - First version was built as a Google Chrome plugin. However after speaking with users, they all primarily searched for clothes on their phone! So I shifted to an app. - Built using React Native / NodeJS. I scraped Google's search results and built better filters / actually good UI/UX on top of it. Motivation for building was my own frustrations of trying to find specific items. - Conducted 50 user interviews and narrowed towards an MVP that users actually wanted. - Main growth engine was scrappy. I individually messaged users on Reddit in r/findfashion who screenshotted/took a photo of a particular clothing item they wanted but couldn't find anywhere . I'd use my app to find what they were looking for and then I'd post links to it. I'd then say hey I found these using this app I built, give it a try. Got hundreds of users from this. Also ran paid ads on Reddit/FB. ### Market Development @ Patch Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area - Landed meetings with Fortune 500 CFOs and CSOs. Primarily through cold emails / relationships. I can land a meeting with almost anyone given the right hook. - Built out tooling for rest of team to use to make our lives easier. ### Business Development @ Patch Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Patch helps any business automate their climate goals with a few lines of code. Our API enables businesses to programmatically neutralize the carbon footprint of any transaction - from e-commerce shipments to employee travel. We’ve built a network of both frontier Negative Emission and traditional CO2 removal projects around the world that are permanently sequestering CO2. ### Side Project @ Dyana Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - https://dyana.io - Built and launched a climate app that turns any credit card into a climate card. - Think Acorns for climate. Users load a credit card of choice to the app and choose carbon projects they want to contribute to. Spare change is then automatically sent to carbon projects after every transaction with their card. - Built with React Native / NodeJS leveraging Stripe/Plaid/Patch/Supabase. App is still active but after testing user demand on Reddit/Instagram ads channels I decided to finish the idea. Best performing Reddit ad had $0.18 CPC and CTR of 0.65% at 17k impressions. ### SDR @ SwagUp Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Miami, Florida, United States - First outbound sales hire at the largest two-sided marketplace for swag. Sold into B2B companies. - Built a custom mockup engine that allowed any cold email to include mockups for company-branded swag automatically. ### Climate Fellow ODCT2 @ On Deck Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 On Deck Climate Tech (ODCT) is a network of top experts, leaders, advisors, and investors across the climate tech ecosystem with a focus on catalyzing global climate solutions. ### Co-Founder @ Remora Robotics Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 - Co-founded a green-tech company and led a team of six engineers to design, build and sell autonomous drone boats that clean waste from waterways remotely. - Led computer vision, systems design, marketing/sales, and overall direction. - Raised 15k in funding and survived one year during covid. - Built functional prototype that primarily used computer vision + Ardupilot backend for path planning. - Drone was capable of detecting and capturing waste, avoiding obstacles, path planning, return to home. - Two part system dock / Remora. Dock enabled autonomous charging and comms. ### Pioneer @ Pioneer.app Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Founded by Daniel Gross - Pioneer is an 8-week long accelerator program for startups. I was selected as a "Pioneer" after going through their competition with +1,000 other companies and reaching as high as 2nd in the world. ### Member @ Tiger Cage Accelerator Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Auburn, Alabama, United States Participated in Auburn University's Tiger Cage Business Accelerator. Took a proactive role in expanding our business acumen and scope from experts in a variety of industries. Remora Robotics and other participating companies received practical advice from VCs, Marketers, Patent Lawyers, Financiers, etc. We put all of this advice into our business every single week. ### Undergraduate Research Fellow @ Auburn University, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Auburn, Alabama Area Working in the biosystems department with my mentor, Dr. Mark Dougherty, to design a cylindrically shaped apparatus that creates a vortex directly behind it. The vortex is in theory formed by the force of the river body flow stream. This vortex will be used to collect and capture near-source undegraded floating plastic. ### UAS Engineer @ Radiance Technologies Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Huntsville, Alabama - Constructed and tested both Skywalker X8 flying wing drone and Tarot 680 Pro Hexacopter and designed their internal electrical systems layouts. Identified areas that vulnerable to High Powered Microwaves for takedown - Wrote and composed PDR, CDR, and FRR (fancy aerospace documents) documentation for the Skywalker X8 ### Test Engineer @ ARCTOS Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Warner Robins, GA • The main objective as a test engineer at the DoD AIMS PO is to certify IFF (identification friend or foe) technology for contractors and NATO partners. • Collaborated with peers to analyze, check and compose engineering technical standard documents and the AIMS Technical Whitepaper ### Agency Owner @ The Marketing Missile Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Auburn, Alabama Area ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Auburn University ### Product and Sales Pathrise ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zwadzinski --- Source: https://flows.cv/zachwadzinski JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zachwadzinski/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31