Founder, CTO
Zachary Crockett
Founder & CTO @hardline • CEH • Founder @particle • PhD from @university-of-minnesota-twin-cities, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt • Former CTO of RSR • Composer
Founder & CTO @hardline • CEH • Founder @particle • PhD from @university-of-minnesota-twin-cities, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt • Former CTO of RSR • Composer
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Founder, CTO
As Founder & CTO, I led engineering at Particle for 7.5 years through series C. I was chief architect and a respected and inspiring manager of a global, fully distributed... more team of some of the best hardware and software engineers in the world. I embodied the company's values every day to keep the culture intact through several different stages and transitions.
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Projects
$568K Kickstarter campaign for our first development kit
CTO · A tiny Wi-Fi development board. Arduino + Wi-Fi + ARM Cortex M3 + wireless programming + REST API = awesome.
The Photon, our next generation Wi-Fi dev kit
CTO · The Photon is the sequel to the Spark Core. It's a $19 Wi-Fi development kit that we launched in November 2014 and started shipping in the… · More summer of 2015; we sold 20,000 units through pre-orders before we started shipping.
A 2G/3G development kit and data plan
CTO · The Electron is an Arduino-like cellular development kit with a SIM card and affordable data plan from the creators of the Spark Core.
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Achievements
Founded & grew a company.
Pivoted from creating a consumer electronics product to building a radically open source platform to disrupt the Internet of Things.
Learned to manufacture electronics while living and building relationships in Shenzhen, China for four months.
Currently leading a team of twenty eight to turn a hacker product supported by a vibrant and growing engineering community into a major engineering platform for the Internet of Things.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
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