# Kim Vandiver (slim)

> Kim Vandiver is interim President at Kandra Labs (since May 2026). Zulip on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Interim President, Kandra Labs (since May 2026).

Kim Vandiver joined Kandra Labs as interim president in May 2026 to run operations during Zulip's leadership transition and lead the search for its next leadership.

## What Kim builds

- [Zulip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zulip.md), graded C, 61.5/100, in Work & productivity. Zulip is open-source team chat organised into channels and topics, from Kandra Labs, hosted as Zulip Cloud or self-hosted. Agents reach it through a REST API with bot accounts, an events queue and Python and JavaScript client libraries. Interim President, Kandra Labs (since May 2026), researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Alya Abbott](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alya-abbott/), Director, Zulip Foundation; long-time product lead with a cofounder-like role from 2021 to May 2026
- [Greg Price](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/greg-price/), Director, Zulip Foundation; long-time mobile team lead with a cofounder-like role from 2017 to May 2026
- [Tim Abbott](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-abbott/), Founder; project leader from 2015 to May 2026; director, Zulip Foundation

## Questions

### Who is Kim Vandiver?

Kim Vandiver joined Kandra Labs as interim president in May 2026 to run operations during Zulip's leadership transition and lead the search for its next leadership.

### What does Kandra Labs, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Zulip from Kandra Labs, Inc..

### How are Kim's tools graded?

Zulip is graded C, 61.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://zulip.com/
- https://zulip.com/team/
- https://zulip.com/help/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulip
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McKellar

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.