# Zachary Kilgore

> 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.

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- Created: 2024-09-09T14:31:19.723Z
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**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)  
  
  
# Education  
  
Kilgore 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)  
  
# Career  
  
Zachary 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)   
  
Kilgore served as the Engineering Lead of Raise, a gift card marketplace, post-acquisition until 2018. [\[1\]](#cite-id-scjinvf54v)  
  
In 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)  
  
He 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)  
  
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