Zack Brown
Founder CEO at PaxCorp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Brown is a founder and CEO in San Francisco with 12 years building developer-facing platforms and UI systems. He leads Pax, a systems-level UI language and runtime written in Rust that targets WebAssembly and native, delivering 240 FPS rendering in a sub-100KB footprint and designed to be edited visually, in code, or by an LLM collaborator. Previously he co-founded and ran Haiku—growing an all-remote team of 50, going through YC W18 and raising venture capital—where he bridged design and engineering across product, marketing, and strategy. A hands-on full-stack engineer and open-source contributor, his recent work includes CLI, auth, project management, and npm integration for HaikuTeam/animator alongside low-level compiler and rendering engine implementations. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Computer Engineering at University of WashingtonY Combinator
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
npm10
node-js10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
authentication10
user-authentication10
javascripts10
commandline10
command-line10
cli10
typescript39
git9
typescript29
typescript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HaikuTeam/animator
Jan 2017 - May 2020
Design tool for creating Lottie animations and interactive web components
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:392 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the Haiku CLI, focusing on implementing and refactoring features related to user authentication, project management (import, clone, delete), and dependency management. Their contributions include implementing login functionality with a prompt, persisting auth tokens, and integrating with the inkstone SDK for project listing, creation, and deletion. Further contributions include implementing project installation via npm and providing a foundation for codebase management.
after-effectsweb-componentscssjavascriptwebcomponents
Famous/famous-angular
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Bring structure to your Famo.us apps with the power of AngularJS. Famo.us/Angular integrates seamlessly with existing Angular and Famo.us apps.
Contributions:692 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
typescriptangularjsangularpower
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