# Zachary Kirby

> Software Engineer at Hex

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zacharykirby

Full Stack Stacker | Likes watching movies | Can do a handstand 

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Hex
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
AI stuff

### Founder & CTO @ Vessel (YC W22)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backed by world-class investors (Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, YC) Vessel is on a mission to make shipping rich and powerful integrations quick and easy.

### Software Developer @ Productiv
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Experienced rocket ship growth from the Series A to the Series C

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Worked in Professor Hearst's lab on NLP/HCI related projects.
- Spearheading UI undergraduate development.
- Setup and custom scripted a Tobii 4C eye-tracker for a usability study.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Gusto
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Worked on time tracking feature within Payroll, used by thousands of customers. 
- Developed and deployed a meal compliance feature now used thousands of times a day. 
- Worked on a polyfill that unblocked 10% of time tracking users.

### KP Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
http://fellows.kleinerperkins.com/

### University Investment Fellow @ Glynn Capital
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Sourced and pitched several later stage companies that were prominent on campus to Glynn Capital partners.

### Executive Director @ Cal Hacks
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
Helped lead a team of 30 directors to run the worlds largest collegiate hackathon, Cal Hacks 5.0 (https://calhacks.io/). 

Directly led the raising and management of over $300k.

### Frontend Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park
Did UI Development on the Ads Frontend Infrastructure Team. Working in ReactJS. Helped build out internal tools to assist in the management, debugging, and development of internal frontend data flow mechanisms. 

Tool used by the Facebook Ads Team.

### Head Instructor @ Web Design DeCal (CS 198)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | UC Berkeley
Website: https://wdd.io

The Head instructor for one of the most popular decals taught on campus. The class is ~120 students large (out of over 800 applicants)

### UX Research Extern @ Intuit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater San Diego Area
Worked on the Mint team doing UX research. This included:
1) Interviewing customers and analyzing customer feedback 
2) Empathy mapping and charting consumer data
3) Practicing D4D techniques including broad to narrow and customer first design 
3) Wireframing and constructing lo-fi prototypes of a redesigned Mint app


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zkirby
- Website: https://zkirby.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-20