Kevin Zhu
Co-Founder CTO at Pear VC
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Zhu is a founder and CTO with 13 years of multidisciplinary experience building mission-driven software and research-driven products. He co-founded Vimes to automate crisis triage for child welfare agencies, blending product engineering with public-sector impact and has been supported by Pear VC and Afore Capital. A Stanford Design & Computer Science graduate, Kevin bridges rigorous research (cancer genomics with publications in Nature and Genome Research) and hands-on engineering—he’s also the author of io.java. His background includes elite-level performance as a concert pianist and selection as a World Science Scholar, signaling rare discipline and cross-domain creativity. Based in the NYC metro area, he combines startup execution, academic rigor, and public-interest focus to ship systems that matter.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Jericho Senior High SchoolBachelor's degree Design & Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Design & Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (106)
sympy10
windows10
extensible10
smart-contracts10
embedded10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
rust-lang10
lru10
sketchup10
webassembly10
rust10
dart10
high-performance10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kenvifire/ppt
Jul 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
kenvifire/kenvifire.github.com
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 4 months
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