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Zachary Wallace

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Director of Engineering at Renaissance Learning
📍 Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States

Zachary is the Director of Engineering at Renaissance Learning with over nine years of experience leading teams in platform engineering and AI initiatives. A graduate of both Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill, he focuses on enhancing developer productivity and building scalable architecture.

His writings emphasize creating team environments centered on curiosity, purpose, and constructive dialogue. He advocates for fostering personal trust and morale as a foundation for sustainable team growth and continual improvement.

He co-founded Techucate, where as Lead Architect he was responsible for the entire product lifecycle, from gathering client requirements to final application delivery.

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Current Role
Director of Engineering
Location
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
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LLM-driven Workflows
Believes integrating LLMs into daily engineering workflows is the future and has focused on creating time for his team to experiment with them.
AI in Education
Leads key AI initiatives, such as AI Lesson Generation, and is a proponent of Differentiated Learning, believing it is more achievable than ever with modern technology.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Director of Engineering
Renaissance Learning
10-2024 - 3-2026
Engineering Manager
Renaissance Learning
2-2024 - 11-2024
Staff Platform Engineer
Renaissance Learning
5-2019 - 3-2021
Full Stack Developer
DaySmart Software, Inc.
8-2018 - 3-2021
Lead Architect (Co-founder)
Techucate
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Education
2019 - 2023
Master's of Liberal Arts
Harvard Extension School
2012 - 2016
Bachelor of Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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