Zack Nisbet with the K9 Resorts team at a resort opening

Zack Nisbet

Founder, Software Engineer, and Operator

Deployed Agent Orchestrator at Vulcan Technologies (YC S25) | Co-founded the largest K9 Resorts franchisee | Duke Master's in Business

Since Jul 2026

Deployed Agent Orchestrator Joined Vulcan Technologies (YC S25) as its 16th employee — frontier AI agents for law and government, deployed across state and federal agencies.

Experience

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Vulcan Technologies

Deployed Agent Orchestrator

16th employee Jul 2026 - Present vulcan.ai
  • Joined at seed stage as the 16th employee of the Y Combinator (S25) and General Catalyst-backed team building frontier AI agents for law and government.
  • Growing the user base of Justinian, Vulcan's AI legal platform, by selling into government agencies and developing new applications for its users.
  • Developing Justinian at the product level — improving both the product and its underlying model — and establishing the foundational frameworks that support Vulcan's growth as a company.
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Luxury Pet Hotel Investments

Co-Founder, Director of Resorts

Various Locations Dec 2023 - Jun 2026
  • Raised $3M and incorporated Windy City Dog Resorts as CEO (eight Chicago-area resorts); merged into Luxury Pet Hotel Investments, the largest K9 Resorts franchisee: $100M+ raised, 18 locations open and 40+ exclusive territories in development.
  • Opened the group's first resorts in Los Angeles and Illinois, managing $7M+ combined budgets and 50+ people; the IL location is pacing to profitability ~2x faster than system average, and drove 3 more IL resorts through LOI/lease/zoning.
  • Took over K9 Resorts of Cherry Hill (Feb 2026), the brand's most revenue-efficient resort, on a turnaround; in 120 days rebuilt a 30+ person team while managing 100+ dogs/day, and set a resort-record 96% external audit score.
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Wolfspeed

Solutions Architect

Utica, NY Jun 2021 - Jul 2023
  • Prevented $2.8M+ in annual scrap loss by designing the software and review process for critical operational changes in Wolfspeed's homegrown MES.
  • Presented progress to the CIO and VPs during launch of Wolfspeed's $1.2B NY facility; pioneered the first manufacturing-tool network onboarding, later standardized across 600+ tools.

Technical projects

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Rammenta.com

A memory layer for your life and work.

A native iOS, watchOS, and macOS app that turns talk into memory: record or import any conversation and instantly get a clean, speaker-labeled transcript with an AI summary, action items, and the moments that matter, then ask questions across everything you've captured. Every model runs on the user's own device, fully offline; their data never leaves their device.

  • Full on-device speech-AI stack: designed and built the entire pipeline to run locally in Core ML: transcription (WhisperKit / Apple SpeechAnalyzer), speaker diarization (FluidAudio), and biometric voiceprint identity (ECAPA-TDNN), with no servers, no external APIs, and no per-use cost.
  • Private, instant search and insight: on-device vector search and RAG over the user's entire memory layer (local embeddings + sqlite-vec), with summaries, action items, and decision points generated by Apple Foundation Models, zero cloud dependency; works offline.
  • The architecture advantage: a custom-built stack where every AI layer runs on the device erases cloud cost and the privacy and compliance risk of sending sensitive content off device.
Open Rammenta
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K9 Operations

The operating system for pet-care facilities.

Replaced the spreadsheets, sticky notes, and manager memory that ran the resorts: automated checklist generation via Gingr APIs, inventory, labor-capacity analysis, and a CRM. Piloted in production. React 18/Vite on Supabase (Postgres/RLS); iOS + web. ~345k LOC, ~1,935 commits, 33 edge functions.

Open K9 Operations

Technical skills

TypeScript React Node.js Python Swift/SwiftUI Rust (Tauri) Supabase/PostgreSQL Deno edge functions On-device ML and Core ML WhisperKit Apple SpeechAnalyzer Apple Foundation Models FluidAudio sqlite-vec Realtime ASR Diarization ECAPA-TDNN voiceprints Agent tooling (MCP) Git

Education

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Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business

Master of Management Studies

  • 10-month, STEM-designated program including first half of Fuqua's MBA program.
  • Merit scholarship; worked as a Consultant at Oracle investigating enterprise GenAI applications.
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SUNY Polytechnic Institute, The College of Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity, minor in Computer Science

  • GPA: 3.79; graduated cum laude.
  • Merit scholarship recipient, Wolfspeed scholarship recipient and mentor.

In the news

As seen on CBS News Chicago — K9 Resorts Deerfield opening Watch on YouTube

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Founder, Software Engineer, and Operator

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