Zack Brown
Founder & CEO at PaxCorp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Brown is a serial founder and technical CEO with 12 years of experience building high-performance developer tools and design-driven platforms from San Francisco. He leads Pax, a systems-level UI language and runtime written in Rust that targets 240FPS performance with sub-100KB footprints, and previously co-founded Haiku where he scaled product, remote teams, and fundraising through Y Combinator. Comfortable toggling between product strategy, language/compiler design, native graphics, and hands-on engineering, he spent an 18-month sabbatical producing working compilers and runtimes for WebAssembly and LLVM-macOS. An active full-stack contributor in open-source (notably on Haiku’s CLI and project tooling), Zack blends deep systems expertise with a designer’s sensibility for developer experience and cross-platform portability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Computer Engineering at University of WashingtonY Combinator
Github Skills (13)
command-line-interface10
authentication10
user-authentication10
nodejs10
javascript10
npm10
command-line10
cli10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
git9
react3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HaikuTeam/animator
Jan 2017 - May 2020
Design tool for creating Lottie animations and interactive web components
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:392 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the Haiku CLI, focusing on implementing and refactoring features related to user authentication, project management (import, clone, delete), and dependency management. Their contributions include implementing login functionality with a prompt, persisting auth tokens, and integrating with the inkstone SDK for project listing, creation, and deletion. Further contributions include implementing project installation via npm and providing a foundation for codebase management.
after-effectsweb-componentscssjavascriptwebcomponents
Famous/famous-angular
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Bring structure to your Famo.us apps with the power of AngularJS. Famo.us/Angular integrates seamlessly with existing Angular and Famo.us apps.
Contributions:692 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
typescriptangularjsangularpower
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