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Zach Goldberg

Chief Technical Officer

Zach Goldberg is a seasoned tech entrepreneur, innovation enthusiast, and author with a "founder's mentality" who believes that engineering software should be more science than art.

A passionate learner, leader, and executive, Zach​ is one of the rare​ CTO​s who has cultivated extensive, nuanced, and proven expertise that spans industries while serving numerous startups and scaled​ organizations​,​ including Microsoft, Google, Dama Financial, Savvy Insurance and Lottery.com. Driven by his belief that hiring well, building a collaborative culture, and encouraging teams to reimagine what is possible leads to transformative results, Zach ​is committed to helping establish creative environments that technologists can actually enjoy working in while developing and delivering world-class software.

Most recently, he has poured his expert​​ insights into his first book, The Startup CTO Handbook, which ​cleverly ​guides current and aspiring tech ​leaders through the often overlooked challenges of building tech startups (from hiring and firing to performance management, navigating tech debt, and making technical decisions as a team). In 2018, Zach founded Advance The World, a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire youth with an interest in science, technology engineering, and mathematics (STEM) via thrilling experiences ​that expose​ students to the science behind airplanes and race cars by placing them inside those same vehicles. He has been invited as a guest for high-profile tech-world podcasts, including a discussion of his book on DevInterrupted, and has published articles that explore the ​hidden truths of technology development. His first Toptal article, "The Six Commandments of Good Code: Write Code That Stands the Test of Time" earned 100,000 hits.

Zach ​received his Bachelors of Science & Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania​, where h​e was the first undergraduate ever to develop, lecture, and grade a net-new course curriculum​ (​CIS-399 | Special Topics in Linux: Computer Science in a Modern Unix/Linux Environment)​ before graduation. He served as captain of the Penn Electric Racing team and President of STWing. An avid reader and multi-passionate professional, Zach speaks English, French, and Mandarin, regularly releases reading lists and book reports via his website (zachgoldberg.com), and holds both a private pilot’s license with an instrument rating and an amateur competitive race car driver’s license.

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