Zachary Tschirhart, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Georgetown, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Spearheaded strategic initiatives for the Cray Compiler and Cray Supercomputer Programming Environment teams, delivering high-performance, portable developer solutions for HPE’s industry-leading supercomputers. Championed a culture of quality and modernized software engineering practices, influencing the HPC/AI Business Unit to adopt process improvements.Achievements include: Transitioned to web-based documentation leveraging LLMs and implemented an internal wiki for streamlined knowledge sharing; Enhanced testing visibility through custom dashboards and improved software reliability with a packaged-based continuous deployment framework; Shifted teams toward a production and customer-focused development model from a research-oriented focus, ensuring faster and more impactful delivery cycles. Engage with the community by participating in committees (SC Applications, HPCTESTS, WACCPD, etc.) and guiding the High-performance Software Foundations (HPSF) Technical Advisory Committee.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed teams driving innovation in the Cray Compiler Environment, including the Fortran compiler frontend/runtime, compiler modules, and CI/CD development. Implementing new Fortran language standards and advanced parallel programming models (OpenMP/OpenACC) to optimize performance across diverse CPU and GPU architectures. Delivered scalable, high-performance solutions that enhanced developer productivity and supported cutting-edge HPC workloads.

Professional Engineering Firm - Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Led a team of software engineers to support software development for in the Department of Space Avionics. More generally lead, design, develop, and verify mission, spacecraft and instrument flight software for a variety of space applications.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Orlando, Fl, Us

System Architect and Lead Algorithm developer for Iris recognition technology at the Austin Embedded location. Leads the Embedded Algorithm team to design novel vision algorithms and verification tools that enhance the overall product stability and feature set.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Collaborated with the Department of Energy to drive research on exascale computing architectures, contributing to the development of next-generation supercomputers. Worked closely with lead scientists to port critical applications, such as hydrodynamics, molecular dynamics, and neutron transport, to AMD hardware while consulting with hardware specialists to develop detailed simulations. Acted as a liaison between the DOE and AMD research teams to deliver consistent software solutions across AMD Research. Presented research findings in company-wide meetings, influencing hardware development to better accommodate evolving HPC application trends. Streamlined contractual software requirements by identifying overlaps and managing their consolidation. Leveraged a diverse technical skill set, including HCC/C++AMP, C, C++ (11/17), Fortran, OpenMP (3.1/4.5), OpenACC, MPI, and OpenCL, to advance research and deliver innovative solutions for high-performance computing.

Austin, Texas, Us

Studied and conducted research on various topics, including MRI cancer detection algorithms and GPS Phenotyping using mobile sensor data

Santa Clara, California, Us

Collaborated with the Department of Energy to drive research on exascale computing architectures, contributing to the development of next-generation supercomputers. Worked closely with lead scientists to port critical applications, such as hydrodynamics, molecular dynamics, and neutron transport, to AMD hardware while consulting with hardware specialists to develop detailed simulations. Acted as a liaison between the DOE and AMD research teams to deliver consistent software solutions across AMD Research. Presented research findings in company-wide meetings, influencing hardware development to better accommodate evolving HPC application trends. Streamlined contractual software requirements by identifying overlaps and managing their consolidation. Leveraged a diverse technical skill set, including HCC/C++AMP, C, C++ (11/17), Fortran, OpenMP (3.1/4.5), OpenACC, MPI, and OpenCL, to advance research and deliver innovative solutions for high-performance computing.

Houston, Tx, Us

Created interfaces and drivers for avionic cockpit hardware used by the ForeFlight iPad application. Guided meetings between several third-party hardware and software vendors to create a single compatible API, which reduced ForeFlight labor constraints. Created a standard procedure for which new vendors could easily adapt hardware and software to work for ForeFlight framework. Identified and fixed several outstanding bugs found in previous hardware drivers. Educated software developers on data modeling and simple machine learning, and then implemented a quadratic regression algorithm which reduced overall compute costs in the application.

Pflugerville, Tx, Us

Led, Proposed, and implemented two engineering projects, one of which was a high reliability autonomous robot used to test system tracking accuracy. Debugged, developed, and tested software and hardware for the newly created precision guided system using a combination of Matlab and C/C++. Development projects included tweaking computer vision tracking algorithms, maintaining the custom embedded Linux kernel, modification of hardware drivers, and adding additional features to the iOS applications. A full time position was offered following graduation.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Created a dependable Automatic Build Verification Process for the iOS Sametime software suite. Guided fellow intern to complete a compatible Android counterpart. Met project guidelines of creating a testing framework that was both expendable and had tests that were intuitive to developers and testers. IBM extended the internship after the project was complete and moved me on the development team to work on the iOS Sametime application.

Created the curriculum and devices required for teaching a single lab unit on a spring-mass-damper system. The prototype boards were created using National Instruments PCB designing software, while content was created using LabView. Assisted with the levitation lab unit used to teach closed-loop feedback theory.

Managed a team of two developers that helped Create a basic prototype site and machine learning algorithm to predict spending habits and to reduce prodigal spending by financially educating users. This system was built on JRuby on Rails, MySql, and JMLR while connecting with the Yodlee API to gather the user's financial data.

Austin, Tx, Us

Developed software in a test driven, agile environment using C#, ASP .NET and MSSQL in a MVC framework to deliver custom solutions to clients. Maintained and upgraded a large repository of legacy PHP code alongside a team of developers. Organized and helped create RW3’s first iOS core product, which became a large portion of their business revenue.

Austin, Tx, Us

Conducted research and development of the custom software GNSS receiver built in collaboration with Cornell University. Created a multithreaded Java application used to monitor and control several receivers, which was later incorporated into the curriculum of a GPS course offered at Cornell University. Designed and built custom PCBs for the use on an Antarctic deployment and for a small satellite mission. Completed a graduate course on signal processing and GPS navigation.

Created financial reports using a combination of the Cognos Business Intelligence suite and Oracle SQL Queries. Conducted meetings to discuss reporting gaps and how reports can provide a deeper insight into the company. Developed jobs to handle Automated Clearing House transactions and other international financial data.

Served clientele by analyzing problems and providing comprehensive solutions for any computer-related problem. Evaluated, tested, and repaired computers that field technicians were unable to resolve. Managed the storefront, when the supervisor was not present, by assisting customers that brought in computers to be repaired.

London, Gb

Created a distributed Monte Carlo simulation to gather slot machine game result statistics. The statistics were parsed and formatted into a report for easy management level consumption. A combination of tools used included C, C++, Visual Basic, Excel, and Word.

Served clientele by analyzing problems and providing comprehensive solutions for any computer-related problem. Evaluated, tested, and repaired computers that field technicians were unable to resolve. Managed the storefront, when the supervisor was not present, by assisting customers that brought in computers to be repaired.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Provided customer support and sales in the computer department as a non-commissioned sales representative. Assisted with clientele questions and concerns regarding desktops, laptop PCs, and other computer hardware and equipment.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Maintained large rack servers, tested web management software, and worked with various operating systems including AIX, various distributions of Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Sun Solaris. Developed technical instructions for internal use and conducted over-the-phone technical support for employee hardware maintenance issues. Setup services, such as DHCP, DNS, SAMBA, VPN, and Apache.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Science, Engineering & Math

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

High School Diploma

Certificate, Communication Skills For Professionals