Zachary Kim
Venture Partner at Float (YC S21)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Kim is a venture partner and founder-CTO with 16 years building fault-tolerant, highly available systems across web, enterprise, embedded, and neurosurgical R&D. He co-founded Float and leads technology and investing efforts at Surf Club Ventures and Orange Collective, after serving as CTO at Zaarly where he scaled engineering and product. Technically hands-on, he contributes to open source—improving the idiomatic clj-http Clojure client by adding timeout controls, fixing DELETE-body bugs, and adding integration tests—reflecting a strong emphasis on reliability and QA. He blends product-minded UX and large-scale data visualization expertise with deep systems engineering, a background that uniquely spans operating-room research to YC-backed startups.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Punahou SchoolYC S21, YC S21 at Y CombinatorB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of Denver
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Github Skills (9)
clojure10
http-client10
apache-httpclient10
clojure-cli10
integration-testing10
testing10
javascript6
react-native6
reactjs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dakrone/clj-http
Jun 2011 - Jul 2011
An idiomatic clojure http client wrapping the apache client. Officially supported version.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zachary focused on enhancing the clj-http library by adding features and improving its reliability. They implemented settings for socket and connection timeouts, ensuring more robust HTTP requests. They fixed a bug related to adding bodies to DELETE requests and updated the project's dependencies. Furthermore, the user created and modified integration tests to verify the correct behavior of timeout settings, demonstrating a strong understanding of testing practices.
idiomaticapache-clienthttp-clientsupportedapache
zk/xmpp-clj
Apr 2010 - Nov 2012
Contributions:30 commits in 2 years 8 months
xmppsmackxmpp-libraryclojure-wrapperjabber
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