Edward Amsden
Chief Technology Officer at Zorp Corp
Tyler, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Amsden is a Chief Technology Officer and engineer with 10 years of experience focused on programming language implementation and robust build/deployment systems. As CTO of Zorp Corp he leads development of Nockchain, a fair‑launched useful‑proof‑of‑work L1, and Ares, a high‑performance Nock runtime, blending research-grade language work with production engineering. He brings deep DevOps and build-infrastructure chops—having created a “smart” Docker image and CI/CD pipeline for the notable Urbit project and fixed critical build and cross‑compilation issues in input-output-hk’s haskell.nix. Based in Tyler, Texas with a master's in computer science from RIT, Edward excels at surfacing subtle tooling and runtime fixes that materially improve developer experience and long-lived systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (28)
s-expressions10
s-expression10
dockerce10
github-ci10
docker10
nix10
github-actions-workflows10
containerization10
dockers10
expression10
ci-cd10
build-automation10
build-tools10
github-action-workflow10
github-actions-workflow10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
input-output-hk/haskell.nix
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 42 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Edward contributed to the infrastructure of the project, focusing on build and deployment processes using Nix and related tooling. They added features like shell hooks and functionalities to build stack projects, demonstrating a deep understanding of build systems. Additionally, the user fixed a critical bug related to component builds and modified the LLVM versions, further highlighting their ability to maintain and improve the project's core build infrastructure. They also made changes related to Aarch32 cross-compilation, improving the overall build process.
ghcnix-expressionshaskellinfrastructurenixos
urbit/urbit
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
An operating function
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 37 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily focused on building and deploying Docker images for the Urbit project. Their contributions included creating a 'smart' Docker image capable of loading keyfiles or piers and booting ships. They also implemented CI/CD integration by modifying the build workflow to build and push the Docker image to Docker Hub upon tag creation. Furthermore, they enhanced the Docker image's functionality, ensuring it can run correctly in interactive and non-interactive environments.
nockrustoperating-systemp2phoon
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