Zach Waterfield
TBD at Ripple Ventures
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Waterfield is a seasoned CTO and startup builder with 12 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently leading technology at Rove while investing and advising early-stage companies through roles at Pioneer Fund, Ripple Ventures, and his own angel syndicate. He co-founded and led multiple startups (Kopa, Zettlor, Toad) and has hands-on product engineering experience across growth, billing, and platform teams, most recently at PostHog and WorkOS. Zach spans the full stack—from responsive front-end work and mobile fixes to backend database and storage integrations—and contributes to notable open-source projects like dub, used by teams at Twilio, Vercel and Perplexity. He blends operator discipline with investor insight, routinely helping founders on engineering, hiring, and founder relationships while sourcing and evaluating high-potential pre-seed deals. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs practical product instincts with deep execution experience, having shipped acquisition-ready products and built investor-facing tooling. A former ski instructor and tractor driver turned CTO, he brings an uncommon mix of hands-on humility and strategic technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorComputer Engineering Student, Computer Engineering Student at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
841reputation
295kreached
16answers
4questions
Github Skills (30)
typescript10
nextjs10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
database-connection9
server-configuration9
databases9
tailwindcss9
cloudinary9
react9
database9
responsiveness8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dubinc/dub
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Open-source link management infrastructure. Loved by modern marketing teams like Twilio, Perplexity, Vercel, and Huberman Labs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the frontend of the Dub platform, making updates to the user interface and fixing mobile responsiveness issues. They also worked on backend configurations, specifically concerning database connections and environment variables. Furthermore, the user updated the project's storage integration by switching from R2 to Cloudinary and then to the updated storage system.
analyticsedge-functionsrediscustom-domainsshortener
zlwaterfield/typerjs
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes in 11 months
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