# Zac Vawter

> Founding Engineer at Kodiak Robotics

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zacvawter

Robots by day, robot by night.  Seasoned full stack robotics software engineer.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Kodiak Robotics
Jan 2018 – Present | Mountain View
We are developing autonomous technology for long-haul trucking.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Uber Advanced Technologies Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Autonomy software systems engineering.  I lead system wide initiatives involving localization, perception, prediction & planning, introducing new algorithms, science, or changing architecture.  I've spent a significant amount of time collaborating with a research team producing DNN's and integrating them for end-to-end product capabilities.  Ultimately I love deeply understanding the product goals and driving system wide initiatives in service of those goals.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Otto
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Rapid prototyping new approaches to self driving.

### Senior Software Engineer / Team lead @ Kitty Hawk
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
Rapid evaluation of design & components.  Scaled cross functional team of hardware, electronics, and software engineers and technicians.  I helped define the product vision while accounting for the technical challenges we would face, allowing the team to rapidly explore the problem space.
- Led team in exploration of various designs
- Built operations team to rigorously test vehicles
- Scaled manufacturing through supply chain & vendor selection
- Wrote embedded interface software [5% of time]

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zee.Aero
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
Lead a small cross functional team.  Used ROS, rviz, boost, sqlite, android.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Engineered Software Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2014 | Lacey, WA
Software & Product development for the fluid handling industry.  I lead a team of brilliant software engineers working in C++ and a smattering of other languages.  With our product development teams I explore ways to solve problems by applying new or existing technologies.  I have a passion for taking computer science and solving real world problems with it.

### Software Engineer @ Engineered Software Inc.
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Designed, implemented and debugged new features in PIPE-FLO and PUMP-FLO.

### Founder @ Graphseeker
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Developed and researched computer vision algorithms with the goal of automated digitization of plots.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Saint Martin's University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zacvawter

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Last updated: 2026-04-12