zachary feuerstein

New York, NY 🇺🇸

experience

VP of Operations

Diode Computers

Sep 2025 - Present

New York, NY • Founding Team

Joined the founding team to build electronics manufacturing and operations from scratch. Standing up a factory, managing supply chain and vendor relationships, building automation systems, and improving the customer purchasing experience.

CEO and Founder

Breadboard (Acquired by EETech)

Mar 2022 - Jul 2025

New York, NY

Founded AI-driven electronics supply-chain platform, facilitating $500M+ in component transactions, saving clients 3–5% on spend and increasing their revenue ~15% through accelerated quoting and procurement

Raised $4.2M in VC funding; negotiated and closed acquisition by EETech in July 2025

Built key innovations including LLM-powered supplier negotiations, OCR-based data extraction for BOMs, RFQs, and POs, and linear programming algorithms for optimizing supplier allocations

Full-stack founder: handled sales, product design, engineering, finance, operations, and customer onboarding; grew to 60+ enterprise manufacturers in under 3 years

VP of Product → VP of Commercial Strategy

H1 (First Employee)

Jul 2017 - Feb 2022

New York, NY

Joined pre-revenue as first employee; led product development and established product-market fit for a platform profiling every doctor globally, enabling life sciences companies to engage top healthcare providers

Transitioned post-PMF to build and scale commercial operations, launching sales engineering, customer success, implementation, and consulting teams

Helped scale from zero revenue to $30M+ ARR, raised over $200M in funding, and grew the team from 1 to 400+ employees

Product Engineer

dv01 (Acquired)

May 2016 - Jul 2017

New York, NY

Built analytics platform used by leading hedge funds and investors to manage portfolios totaling over $4T in asset-backed securities

Co-founder and CTO

ResearchConnection (Acquired)

Sep 2014 - May 2016

New York, NY

Co-founded in college; launched a searchable research platform adopted by 25 universities, connecting 50,000 researchers and 20,000 students; secured $500K funding and exited via Gates and Kauffman Foundations

Data Engineer

Etsy

Jun 2014 - Jul 2015

Brooklyn, NY

Built Microscope, an internal tool for searching and replaying user sessions based on any criteria—location, spend, behavior, and more. Used across product research, customer service, and bug fixing. Worked with Spark/Scala, Elasticsearch, PHP, and Vertica

education

Binghamton University

Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2011 - 2015

Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science

2007 - 2011

elsewhere

I've been on a few podcasts and in some articles talking about supply chains, electronics, and building Breadboard:

EETech acquires Breadboard — press release, Jul 2025

PCB Chat on supply chain management — podcast, Oct 2024

Frisch Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture — Sep 2024

Interview on building Breadboard — video podcast, Sep 2024

Hardware to Save a Planet on Breadboard — podcast, Jul 2024

Breadboard raises $1M seed round — Yahoo Finance, Nov 2022

Discussion on supply chain challenges — video podcast, Sep 2022

Interview on electronics manufacturing — video podcast, Aug 2022

H1 Insights raises $12.9 million — AI Journ, Apr 2020

Launching ResearchConnection at Binghamton — Binghamton University Newspaper, Nov 2014