Zach Sims (born 1990) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Codecademy, an online platform offering interactive coding lessons and tutorials.

[1][2] Sims served as the CEO of Codecademy, overseeing the platform's growth and development into one of the leading online resources for learning to code.

When Sims was 13, he started to email manufacturers with the idea to build a waterproof iPod case, showing his ambition for tech at a young age.

[7] He also worked for GroupMe, founded by his college friend Jared Hecht, after seeing him demo the application at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010.

[8] As a result, he decided to teach himself coding with the help of his friend Ryan Bubinski, whom he met while working for the Columbia Daily Spectator.