- 📍 Location: Alameda, CA
- 🔗 Website: zacbowling.com
- 🐶 Dogs: Teddy and Pickle
- 🔗 Day Job: Staff AI Software Engineer @ Modular
- 🎥 TikTok: @YesInMyBackyard
- 🎥 YouTube: @YesInMyBackyard
Zac Bowling is an accomplished software engineer, housing advocate, and civic leader based in Alameda, California. With over two decades of experience in technology and public advocacy, Zac bridges the worlds of software engineering, open-source contributions, and grassroots political engagement.
Zac currently serves as a Staff AI Software Engineer at Modular, focusing on developing innovative AI software and high-performance machine learning infrastructure. Prior to Modular, Zac was an integral part of Google's pioneering Fuchsia OS project, where he played a key role in developing system libraries, drivers, toolchains, and a new Bluetooth stack. He was instrumental in enabling Apple's Swift programming language to run natively on Fuchsia (The Verge).
Zac is a former startup founder and previously held senior engineering positions at notable technology firms, including Apportable (acquired by Google), SeatMe (acquired by Yelp), doubleTwist, Texas Instruments, and Match.com.
- Operating systems and compiler development
- Cross-platform development for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms
- Rust, Swift, C/C++, Zig, and Python
- Packaging, distribution, and deployment
- Security and performance optimization
- Developer evangelism and community engagement
- Building startups
- Modification of distracting sounds (U.S. Patent 10,133,542), developed during his tenure at Google to intelligently filter distracting noises from audio streams.
- Restaurant management and reservation systems and methods (U.S. Patent Application 20130024273), developed at SeatMe to streamline restaurant operations and customer interactions.