Zach Aysan
Partner at Venn
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Aysan is a partner and seasoned entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building products at the intersection of math, data, and design. He co-founded Algo Anywhere (acquired by 500px) and later Venn, where he leads multidisciplinary teams delivering mobile apps, web platforms, and ML consulting. As Chief Data Scientist at 500px and an active contributor to open-source projects like Nim’s standard library, he combines practical systems-level coding (Rails, Django, data science, cybersecurity) with product-minded design. Based in Old Toronto, he brings engineering rigor from Waterloo and hands-on software training from Sheridan, plus a persistent curiosity that fuels side projects, experiments, and a popular EmberUI component library.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Software, Software at Sheridan CollegeBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering at University of Waterloo
French, English
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Github Skills (19)
nim-lang10
strings10
testing10
text-manipulation10
lang9
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
metaprogramming7
macros7
procedural7
ruby-on-rails6
bitbucket6
git-pull6
linux6
ssh-keys6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/Nim
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the Nim standard library, specifically the `strutils` module. Their work focused on implementing and refactoring string manipulation functions, including adding functionality similar to Ruby's `chomp`, and `removeSuffix`. They also added tests and documentation for these functions. The user also added necessary HTTP status codes.
pythonnim-langelegancecompilerprogramming-language
zachaysan/nca
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:70 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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