{"id":"zachary-kilgore","version":1,"language":"en","title":"Zachary Kilgore","hidden":false,"content":"**Zachary Kilgore** is the Co-founder of Flexa, the developer company behind [Ampera](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ampera), a grassroots payments initiative, anchored by the AMP collateral token. He is also the Technical Lead at the Acronym Foundation (AF). [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-6ryz2fwm9hr)[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dwgs3w9ml1q)[\\[4\\]](#cite-id-u2injii339)  \n$$widget0 [YOUTUBE@VID](ZMdfGsxMlqo)$$  \n  \n# Education  \n  \nKilgore attended Duke University for a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Engineering from 2002 to 2006. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-6ryz2fwm9hr)[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-v7jekforks)[\\[4\\]](#cite-id-u2injii339)  \n  \n# Career  \n  \nZachary Kilgore was the Director of Software Engineering at Slide, a digital prepaid app for iOS and Android that allowed users buy, store, and manage gift cards. Slide was acquired by Raise in 2016 for an undisclosed amount. [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-scjinvf54v)   \n  \nKilgore served as the Engineering Lead of Raise, a gift card marketplace, post-acquisition until 2018. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-scjinvf54v)  \n  \nIn March 2018, Kilgore co-founded Flexa, a digital payments network alongside [Tyler Spalding](https://iq.wiki/wiki/tyler-spalding), and served as the Principal Engineer/CISO of the company. [\\[6\\]](#cite-id-zkito43z0ir)  \n  \nHe also leads open-source spending projects for the Acronym Foundation, an independent organization that operates as a not-for-profit, with an initial donation of AMP tokens from Flexa Network, Inc. [\\[7\\]](#cite-id-h8jw0jxysf4)  \n  \n<br>  \n<br>  \n<br>  \n","summary":"Zachary Kilgore is a co-founder of Flexa and Technical Lead at the Ampera Foundation, notable for his work in digital payments and engineering leadership.","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"People in crypto"}],"promoted":0,"tags":[{"id":"Founders"}],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"6ryz2fwm9hr\",\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharykilgore/\",\"description\":\"Linkedin profile\",\"timestamp\":1725890165478},{\"id\":\"dwgs3w9ml1q\",\"url\":\"https://x.com/zkilgore\",\"description\":\"X profile\",\"timestamp\":1725890178615},{\"id\":\"v7jekforks\",\"url\":\"https://zacharykilgore.com/\",\"description\":\"personal website\",\"timestamp\":1725890770207},{\"id\":\"u2injii339\",\"url\":\"https://www.crunchbase.com/person/zachary-kilgore\",\"description\":\"crunchbase profile\",\"timestamp\":1725890788411},{\"id\":\"scjinvf54v\",\"url\":\"https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160624/BLOGS11/160629888/raise-acquires-new-york-based-slide-app\",\"description\":\"Raise acquires New York-based Slide app\\n\",\"timestamp\":1725891122862},{\"id\":\"zkito43z0ir\",\"url\":\"https://flexa.co/\",\"description\":\"Flexa website\",\"timestamp\":1725891450170},{\"id\":\"h8jw0jxysf4\",\"url\":\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMdfGsxMlqo\",\"description\":\"YouTube - real world payments \",\"timestamp\":1725891889589}]"},{"id":"website","value":"https://zacharykilgore.com/"},{"id":"instagram_profile","value":"https://www.instagram.com/zkilgore/"},{"id":"twitter_profile","value":"https://x.com/zkilgore"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharykilgore/"}],"user":{"id":"0x212Cb3F4aE6611054637f9f78F18fB628AD258bb"},"author":{"id":""},"media":[{"name":"ZMdfGsxMlqo","size":0,"id":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMdfGsxMlqo","source":"YOUTUBE"}],"views":0,"events":[],"linkedWikis":{"founders":[],"blockchains":[],"speakers":[]},"founderWikis":[],"blockchainWikis":[],"images":[{"id":"Qme2nAQuWoxtgP8rR9xv4zmttTzt7saV9ua1x9kuX4zKyR","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}]}