Alex Morcos
Co-Founder at Chaincode Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Morcos is a co-founder and technologist who has spent two decades building low-latency, quantitative trading systems and advancing digital-currency research as a founder of Hudson River Trading and Chaincode Labs. With a background in math and computer science from MIT and early experience as an algorithm developer at Tower Research, he blends rigorous academic training with production-grade back-end engineering. He is an active contributor to major cryptocurrency codebases—improving robustness and performance in projects like Zcash, Bitcoin ABC, Litecoin and Dogecoin—bringing a particular focus on mempool, transaction validation, and fee-estimation logic. Based in New York, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic fixes that harden distributed ledgers, a pattern that reflects both his research interests and market-facing engineering instincts.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsMaster's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (31)
crypto-wallet10
transaction10
debug10
wallet10
transactional10
c-language10
back-end-development10
validations10
zcash10
bitcoin-wallet10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
validation10
pool10
cryptocurrency10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Bitcoin XT. Most recent release is K.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Bitcoin XT codebase, focusing on core functionalities related to the mempool and block creation. They made modifications to expose mempool access functions, store and utilize the total signature operation count, and rewrite the block creation process. These changes aimed to optimize block construction, potentially improving transaction processing and efficiency within the Bitcoin XT network.
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PIVX-Project/PIVX
Mar 2015 - Jan 2021
Protected Instant Verified Transactions - Core wallet.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on improving the efficiency and functionality of the PIVX core wallet. They addressed issues related to wallet descendant searching, added a new RPC call for abandoning transactions, and fixed balance calculations related to conflicted transactions. They also implemented a class for constructor testing and made improvements to fee estimation, including incorporating mempool minimum fees.
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