# David Zink

> Architect, Demolition Agent, Secret Weapon

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidzink

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Machinify, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Present
Founder, engineer, architect. Apologies for the scantness of data, i don't personally use LinkedIn.

### Explorer @ Sabbatical
Jan 2013 – Jan 2023

### Senior Platform Architect @ VUDU, Inc.
Jan 2005 – Jan 2013
I make things happen.  Other things, I don't make happen.

### Architect/Scientist/Senior Engineer @ PostPath
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
Company makes a drop-in Exchange Server replacement. I wrote high-performance asynchronous clients and servers for network protocols like MSRPC and Active Directory and for file acccess, and became chief architect. After a change of direction and management, became their researcher/scientist.

### Senior Engineer @ Fort Hill Systems
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
Delivered a very high performance HTTP proxy-cache with CDN extensions, then the company blew up.

### Senior Engineer @ Fort Hill Systems (formerly CacheWare)
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003

### Senior Server Architect @ Cachware
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002

### Senior Engineer @ Entera
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001
(acquired by Cacheware)

### Reader @ Baen Publishing Enterprises
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999

### Senior Development Manager/Senior Engineer @ Prolifics (was JYACC)
Jan 1985 – Jan 1998
Major contributor on the Panther project from its genesis as ScreenManager in the mid eighties.  Also used as short-term emergency revive-the-project-and-ship-it-now consultant at various clients around the country. Ended as director of software development.

### Troublemaker @ Prolifics (formerly JYACC, Inc)
Jan 1985 – Jan 1998

### everything @ Prolifics
Jan 1992 – Jan 1997

### Senior Developer @ Prolifics, a JYACC Company
Jan 1987 – Jan 1997
(linkedin only cross-references properly if all the names your companies were known by in other profiles are explicitly listed)

Implemented the first UNIX-based system at any major exchange, the AutoEX for XMI interactive displays on the trading floor of the AMEX.

Continued lead development on JAM/Prolifics.

Innumerable consulting assignments at Moody's, Prudential Sec, Citibank, Applied Collegiate, etc.

### Engineer @ Jyacc
Jan 1985 – Jan 1987
(linkedin only works if all the names your companies were known by are explicitly listed)

Helped originate the Screen Manager project (which became Formmaker, JAM, then Prolifics).  Various consulting gigs.


## Education
### none in Mathematics
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-zink-07a810

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Last updated: 2026-04-11