Zachary Potter

Zachary Potter has diverse work experience in various fields, starting with their position as a Flight Control Engineer at Joby Aviation since July 2020, where they are involved in developing flight control algorithms for an electric aircraft. Prior to that, they worked as a Control Systems Intern at the same company from March 2020 to July 2020.

In 2018, Zachary served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of California, Santa Cruz - Jack Baskin School of Engineering for the course CMPE 118: Introduction to Mechatronics, where they assisted students in learning about mechatronic design.

Zachary gained experience as a System Engineering Intern at Flexiv Ltd. from June 2019 to September 2019, where they worked on projects involving data analysis and system identification functions related to robotic joints.

Zachary also worked as a Research Assistant at the UC Santa Cruz MASC lab from September 2017 to September 2018, contributing to the development of Pyrope, a hardware description language. During this time, they wrote a utility in C++ that converts Verilog scripts into Pyrope scripts.

In 2017, they interned as a Digital Products Intern at Anova Culinary, where they implemented features on their Android app and web servers. Zachary gained experience in version control, continuous integration tests, and Agile development methodologies.

Zachary also had tutoring experiences at UC Santa Cruz, where they assisted in teaching students embedded C programming and programming with Processing. Zachary also served as a note-taker for the Disability Resource Center.

In addition, they have prior work experience as a Sales Associate at The True Olive Connection and as a Summer Camp Counselor at Golden State YMCA.

Overall, Zachary Potter has a range of experiences in engineering, programming, data analysis, teaching, and customer service.

Zachary Potter earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2014 to 2018. Zachary later pursued a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the same university from 2018 to 2020. Additionally, in March 2019, they obtained an Amateur Radio Technician certification from the Federal Communications Commission.