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ZACHARY KIM
Co-Founder and CTO, Float
Zachary Kim has nearly two decades of experience in fields ranging from web and enterprise development, to embedded systems and neurosurgical research and development. His professional interests include highly-available fault-tolerant systems, UX design, large-scale data analysis and visualization, and open source software. Most recently he was the CTO at Zaarly, Inc.
Zachary is a Y Combinator (S21) alumnus. He is a graduate of Punahou School and received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Denver.
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