# Kirk Zathey > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kirkzathey Interested in software engineering and business. Expert in PostgreSQL, backend and API development, software security, and cloud infrastructure. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Anchorage Digital Jan 2021 – Present | Remote to San Francisco ### Security Software Engineering Lead @ hims & hers Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Remote to San Francisco ### Software Engineer @ Snapchat, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ever AI Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Remote to San Francisco Subject matter expert on PostgreSQL. Responsible for reviewing database related changes across all teams and projects. Maintained and upgraded database cloud instances, extended LVM groups and tuned Postgres configs. Wrote and deployed migrations to large production databases with new schema and PL/pgSQL stored procedures. Created microservices with Go and Kubernetes for database statistics, photo geolocation, facial recognition, batch uploading, image hashing and automatic deduplication. Rearchitected services to add Redis caching on access control, added seeking and caching to on-the-fly video transcoding, used Google BigQuery for data warehousing of analytics. Interviewed candidates for backend software engineering roles. ### Performance Software Engineer @ Sandvine Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Waterloo, ON Wrote scripts to load-test and record performance statistics of KVM appliances. Debugged performance issues on Postgres and Influx databases. Coded optimized subclasses for a GSM simulator, achieving a 300-500% increase in performance. Designed a tool to log system statistics into a SQL database. ### Software Engineer @ Aviat Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Ljubljana, Slovenia Built an embedded Linux OS with Buildroot for use in a new microwave router product. Worked on Makefiles and Jenkins for software builds. Created Debian packages to configure the build environment. Evaluated and implemented databases on an embedded system. Defined system requirements with Jama. ### Software Engineer @ Auvik Networks Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Kitchener, ON Created server actors with Scala and Akka to accept logs using different protocols. Defined regular expressions for parsing syslog messages from a set of RFC and non-standard formats. Integrated Java libraries in Scala for SNMP support. Wrote automated unit tests in Scala. ### Software Engineer @ Sandvine Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Waterloo, ON Worked on microcode for a new NPU (network processing unit). Constructed a testing infrastructure and tests in incr Tcl for microcode functionality using a simulator, which allowed for immediate feature complete testing, no longer requiring the use of prototype hardware. Supported the test infrastructure and made enhancements based on requests from engineering and QA teams. Created Python scripts to periodically generate reports on functionality and performance statistics of committed microcode. ### Quality Assurance Analyst @ Sandvine Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Waterloo, ON Tested network system performance using both automated and manual tests. Utilized the Ixia Tcl Automation Environment and proprietary traffic generators. Analyzed Key Performance Indicator metrics, tracking defects and performance regressions. Wrote, debugged, and improved testing code in incr Tcl. ### Network Specialist @ Bell Canada Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Toronto, ON Configured service provider equipment including core routers, DSLAMs, and NNIs. Implemented future technologies such as IPv6, NAT64, and Cisco IOS XR in a large test lab. Contributed to a Proof of Concept Report for Juniper Networks. Mentored a junior co-op student in learning networking fundamentals. ### Network Specialist @ Bell Canada Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Toronto, ON Conducted tests on a variety of networking equipment such as enterprise routers and switches. Authored numerous enterprise networking service certification papers. Collaborated with senior team members and teams in other divisions. Worked with product vendors for equipment validation and bug reporting. ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Computer Engineering University of Waterloo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zathey --- Source: https://flows.cv/kirkzathey JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kirkzathey/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11