Kev zettler
Product Engineer at Red Trench Media Corp
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKev zettler is a product engineer and serial entrepreneur with 15 years building scalable, real-time web systems from seed-stage startups to large gaming and payments platforms. A Y Combinator alum and published technical author, he blends front-end specialization (React, WebGL/Three.js) with full-stack JavaScript, DevOps, and AWS expertise to ship production-grade features and incident-ready services. He’s led engineering teams at King and Tilt, architected high-throughput trading APIs at BitMEX, and received an Ethereum Foundation grant for Layer 2 and ZKP security research. As founder of Red Trench Media he consults on customer discovery and rapid PMF iteration while also delivering realtime streaming dashboards and chat infrastructure. His open-source contributions emphasize UX-focused front-end improvements (e.g., Cloudfuji/kandan) and practical tooling for smart-contract auditing, reflecting a rare mix of product instincts and deep security curiosity. Based in Oakland, he’s equally comfortable in hands-on coding, on-call reliability, and technical leadership across distributed teams.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Business at Y Combinator
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
sass10
ui-design9
backbonejs9
backbone9
html8
user-interface8
css8
ux-design7
user-experience7
ssh6
react6
docker6
redux6
ios6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfuji/kandan
Mar 2012 - Jan 2013
A Cloudfuji chat application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kev primarily contributed to the front-end development of the chat application, focusing on UI/UX improvements and styling. They refactored code to use Sass, styled UI elements, and implemented tab and header adjustments. Additionally, they addressed issues related to scrolling and positioning, indicating a focus on enhancing the user experience and visual appeal of the application. They also made changes to the application's JavaScript and views files.
chatnodejschat-application
kevzettler/robotbones
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 324 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 3 months
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