Meet Zane

Role & Responsibility

Zane Shewalter is responsible for the design and evolution of Manufacturo’s manufacturing quality and compliance workflows, ensuring they are practical, integrated, and grounded in how work actually happens on the factory floor. He serves as product owner for quality across the platform, focusing on building systems that help teams move fast safely while maintaining trust, traceability, and rigor.

Zane also leads Support, Customer Success, and Operations (DevOps), with a focus on helping customers onboard smoothly, realize value quickly, and scale with confidence. He works closely with product, engineering, and services to champion the customer’s voice and perspective to ensure feedback directly shapes the platform—keeping Manufacturo aligned with the real needs of modern manufacturers.

Experience & Expertise

With nearly two decades of experience across biotech, aerospace, manufacturing, and higher education, Zane brings a practical, systems-oriented approach to building software that works in real operational environments. His background spans product leadership, software delivery, and customer-facing roles at organizations including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Opentrons Labworks, and Northern Arizona University.

Zane’s work has consistently focused on helping teams navigate complexity—translating real customer needs into scalable products, objective & measurable value, clear processes, and reliable execution in high-consequence environments.

Areas of focus include

  • Leading product and customer-facing teams to drive measurable operational improvements
  • Delivering software and implementation efforts in complex, regulated manufacturing environments
  • Converting customer insight into roadmaps and workflows that scale with growth
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Strong operations treat quality as a foundational capability, not a separate function. When quality flows through the entire system, it helps teams make better decisions and avoid preventable breaks. Partnering with customers to build that kind of integrated experience—one that accelerates their work—is the value I try to bring to every engagement.
20 YEARS
Driving Manufacturing Software Quality Innovations & Service Teams
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