About Us
The Zinc collective is made up of Member Owners, Client Owners, and contributors who come from a range of backgrounds. Most of us are technologists seeking a slow-paced, cozy, caring, safe retreat away from the commercial industry to be our authentic selves and find community. We work remotely but our roots in are in Oakland, CA so there is a core group of members in the Bay Area.
Meet some members of the Zinc Collective.
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Cooperative Finance and Operations, Software Architecture, Testing, and EngineeringInterests:
Reading and Story-Telling, Adventure and Story-Telling GamesZee has worked in software for nearly two decades, primarily in engineering organizations. Zee has woven his career between individual contributor, management, leadership and training roles. At present, his focus is on developing collectively organized workplaces, with an emphasis on employee ownership of software companies.
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Software Engineering: Backend, APIs, Infrastructure, Automation, Engineering LeadershipInterests:
Democratic Governance, Facilitation, Books, Cats, Knitting, FoodAna is an experienced software engineer and engineering leader. She's worked at companies big and small, as an employee and as a contractor, as an individual contributor and as a manager. She stumbled upon Zinc in her search for better ways of working together, which is her current focus. Her engineering strengths lie in the backend, services, APIs, infrastructure and automation, as well as process and leadership coaching.
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Software Architecture, Frontends, APIsInterests:
Responsible Technology Design, Kung Fu, White Anti-Racist Organizing, Democratic Workplaces, Writing, Inter-species Relationships (🐱)Ross is a software engineer, martial arts instructor, and activist. The tantalizing ontological crisis of socio-technical software systems (mixed with a dash of retrograde fantasy to mix with the hacker guild keeps him eager to work on boring software that improves the collective lot. Ross loves working alongside other technologists that learn together and value shared theory building.