Zach Gotsch
Founding Engineer at CommodityAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZach Gotsch is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building production-grade web and mobile systems, currently leading engineering at CommodityAI to automate operational workflows for commodity firms. He co-founded Pico (YC W24), shipping an iOS assistant that acted on screenshots using custom prompt-chaining and evaluation tooling, and previously led frontend and infrastructure efforts at Flexport, Spring, and Khan Academy. Zach blends a functional, strongly-typed approach to engineering—favoring declarative patterns, DSLs, and functional reactive/event-stream architectures—with pragmatic product instincts for complex business logic. He has shipped libraries and tooling (e.g., the formula-one form/state library) and built end-to-end systems spanning native iOS, React, Rust, and backend services. Outside work he climbs, dances West Coast Swing, and applies those same pattern-seeking instincts to personal projects like market-making bots and experimental crypto and messaging systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science Mathematics at Penn State University
Spanish, French
Github Skills (185)
parser10
onclick10
aphrodite10
game-development10
data-driven10
javascript10
game-engine10
sdk10
rust10
typescript10
payment-methods10
strongly-typed10
open-source10
hardware10
react10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flexport/formula-one
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Strongly-typed React form state management
Contributions:116 commits, 16 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 5 months
react-formreactstate-managementform-statereact-typed
flexport/commentariat
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
A little library for inserting comments into JS and JSX files.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
reactjavascriptjsxcommentsjson
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