About Zach

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Personal

My name is Zach Stanford. I live near the mountains in the state of Utah with my wife and two daughters.

I've always been a numbers guy. I love digging into data and finding ways to turn it into something useful.

These days, I'm focused on using AI to automate the boring stuff and build insights dashboards on my personal data that help me track, reflect, and improve. That includes everything from fitness to finance to family fun.

Scroll through the cards to learn more about me and my hobbies. Tap any card to see how I'm applying AI and my future plans.

Daughters

My favorite role is being a dad.

✨ Built pocket app to play interactive mini-games with my kids.

Marathons

Sub-3 hour marathoner and Boston Marathon finisher.

✨ Built AI coaching and performance stats insights dashboard.

Rock Concerts

Never outgrew my love for punk rock. Playlist curator and concert junkie.

✨ Built a personalized music insights app and concert log.

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Books Read

Goal to read 24 books every year. Mostly into nonfiction and always looking for book recommendations

🚧 Reading stats visualized and AI book recommendations.

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Quotes Collected

Logging favorite quotes and insights from books, mentors, and everyday moments

✨ Built ZenQuotes app for daily inspiration and quote cards.

Broken Bones

Active lifetyle and a high risk tolerance is a dangerous combo. In 2024 I crashed my mountain bike and broke both arms at the same time.

🚧 GPT to record injury history and health metrics.

Countries Explored

Exploring the globe with my family, extended stays in Belgium and New Zealand.

🚧 Travel log map + destination recs + memory storyteller.

Fantasy Basketball Leagues

Basketball analytics and fantasy NBA enthusiast. From a physical card collection as a kid to a digital NFT card collection as an adult.

✨ Built fantasy basketball roto analytics dashboard to draft a winning team.

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Digits of π Memorized

As a poor college student, I convinced my Dad to pay me $500 dollars if I could memorize 500 digits in a week.

Just a whimsy card with linked video proof. No AI plans ... yet :)

Financial Assets

Buy-and-hold investor self-managing portfolio of ETFs, stocks, and alternatives targeting diversifcation and long-term growth.

🚧 Portfolio performance insight dashboard and AI advisor.

My family at Mount Cook in New Zealand, March 2025.

Professional

I've spent over a decade shipping business intelligence solutions at companies including Cash App, DoorDash, Black Box Intelligence, and Goldman Sachs.

Currently, I'm an AI & Automation Tech Lead at Block, where I'm architecting and engineering AI solutions to automate analytics.

Before that, I was Director of Insights at a restaurant analytics firm, where I learned firsthand how storytelling with data can drive real results.

In short, I blend business strategy with an engineer's mindset. And I'm unapologetically obsessed with how AI is transforming business as we know it.

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Presenting at the Snowflake Data Summit on Agentic AI for Analytics, June 2025

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