Zack Swafford

Zack Swafford is the Co-founder of Dart, an AI-native project management platform, and is based in San Francisco, California. Backed by Y Combinator in its W22 batch, Dart utilizes GPT-4 to automate administrative tasks, reducing project management overhead by approximately one-third. Previously, Swafford served as the first engineer at the agri-tech company Plenty, where he managed software engineering and led a team of dozens while building full-stack applications and cloud data pipelines. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Computer Science with an artificial intelligence specialization from Stanford University, where he also held teaching roles. Prior to his current venture, he co-founded Atch and worked as an independent consultant focusing on machine learning and computer vision projects. His career centers on leveraging deep learning to develop scalable SaaS productivity tools.