Zach Tratar
Founder CEO at Investor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Tratar is a seasoned software engineer, founder, and investor with over a decade of experience building and scaling products across payments, recruiting, politics, and social platforms. He currently leads Embra as Founder & CEO, an AI-driven product for business memory and automation, and previously co-founded Jobstart, which was acquired by Stripe. At Stripe, he advanced from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager for Issuing and later led the User Platform, shaping money movement and onboarding experiences for global customers. An active angel investor and advisor, he champions economic growth and the responsible role of automation across sectors. He is a hands-on builder with a track record of recruiting top teams and delivering impact, and his open-source work includes enhancing a jQuery truncation plugin to better handle HTML content. Based in San Francisco, he holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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285reached
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Github Skills (10)
html10
text-manipulation10
plugin-development10
javascript10
strings10
javascripts10
jquery10
ruby-on-rails-76
datamapper6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rviscomi/trunk8
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
jQuery Truncation Plugin -- THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a jQuery truncation plugin. They implemented HTML support by adding a `parseHTML` setting and modifying the code to handle HTML tags within the truncated text. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue with extra white space within HTML formatted strings, improving the visual output. The contributions involved modifications to the core JavaScript logic, demonstrating a focus on improving the plugin's ability to handle HTML content correctly.
ellipsisjqueryjsinteropjstreetruncate
ztratar/vibe
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:85 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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