Andrew Huynh
Building The Future Of Agentic Commerce at Zinc
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Huynh is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 16 years of experience building AI-driven products and scalable back-end systems from San Francisco. Currently focused on "agentic commerce" at Zinc, he previously founded Sightglass to combine proprietary business data with state-of-the-art models for personalized search and raised pre-seed funding to validate the vision. A hands-on engineer who “turns coffee into code,” Andrew led data and AI efforts at Huckleberry through acquisition and has deep full-stack and managerial experience from CTO roles to engineering leadership. He contributes to open-source tooling for personal search—working on core back-end integrations and HTML parsing for the spyglass project—reflecting a persistent interest in making information more discoverable. With advanced graduate study in computer science from UC San Diego, he blends research-minded rigor with entrepreneurial execution.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (7)
rust10
sqlite10
html-parsing10
webscraping10
database-design9
json-rpc9
concurrency8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
spyglass-search/spyglass
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
A personal search engine: Create a searchable library from your personal documents, interests, and more!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 588 commits, 646 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily worked on core back-end functionalities for the personal search engine. Their commits focused on integrating with the Firefox history database, including extracting URLs and associated metadata. They also built out the infrastructure for parsing the retrieved HTML to extract the desired textual content. The user also added some support for tagging documents.
pythontauri-appindexrustcrawl
a5huynh/blog-src
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Source for a5huynh.github.com blog
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years
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