Kirk Zathey
Software Engineer at Anchorage Digital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Zathey is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure from San Francisco. He is a PostgreSQL subject-matter expert who combines deep systems and sysadmin skills with hands-on backend and API development in languages ranging from C/C++ and Go to Scala and Python. Kirk has led security-focused engineering efforts and rearchitected services for performance and scalability—adding Redis caching, tuning Postgres at scale, and deploying Kubernetes microservices. He ships across the full stack, contributing UI fixes and numeric corrections on open-source projects while also authoring PL/pgSQL migrations and production-grade tooling. Comfortable operating at the intersection of engineering and product, he pairs a pragmatic, performance-first mindset with broad protocol and low-level systems experience dating back to embedded and network-processing projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
scala9
unit-testing8
postgresql6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
txbits/txbits
Sep 2014 - Jul 2016
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 36 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kirk primarily focused on improving the user interface and correcting numeric issues within the application, modifying JavaScript files for the front-end. They also merged a branch, indicating contributions to integration. Furthermore, the user added license headers to Scala files related to unit tests. These changes span both front-end and back-end aspects of the project.
exchangeriskblockchainexchangesas-code
steers/gollector
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
metricsjsoncollector
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