Chris Zacharias
Founder, CEO at imgix
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Zacharias is a founder and CEO with 14+ years building high-performance web and imaging systems at the intersection of computer graphics and the Internet. After honing full-stack and UI performance skills as YouTube’s early web developer—leading the HTML5 player and lightweight “Feather” experience—he founded imgix in 2011 to create a global image processing pipeline used by developers and product teams. His background spans enterprise software at Xerox, early web apps at startups, and a New Media degree from RIT, giving him a rare blend of graphics, systems, and product instincts. Based in San Francisco and a YC S2011 alum, he combines hands-on engineering with long-term platform vision and a knack for turning imaging science into practical, scalable SaaS. An avid beer-league hockey player, he also brings the teamwork and competitive drive that fuel his company culture.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology / New Media, BS Information Technology / New Media at Rochester Institute of TechnologyY CombinatorMcQuaid Jesuit High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
srcset10
client-library10
fastly10
python-client10
imgix10
nginx-module10
api-client9
src9
database8
python8
visualization8
postgresql7
mysql7
dashboard7
java7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zebrafishlabs/fastly-python
Mar 2012 - Sep 2017
A Python client library for Fastly.
Contributions:39 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 7 months
api-clientfastlypythonclient-librarypython-client
zacman85/hyperlight-websites
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 3 pushes in 21 days
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