Brendan Chou
Engineer at Commonware
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Chou is an engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems across finance, cloud infrastructure, and decentralized exchanges. He played foundational engineering roles at dYdX—rising from early employee to Chief Architect and briefly Head of Engineering—after earlier stints as an SRE at Google and a financial software engineer at Bloomberg. Now based in New York and currently at Commonware, he focuses on pragmatic architecture and shipping production-grade systems that scale. Brendan combines deep systems insight from storage and SRE work with product-minded leadership in crypto trading infrastructure, and he brings a pragmatic optimism about technology’s ability to do social good. An understated but telling detail: his GitHub bio wryly nods to internet anonymity, hinting at a playful, curious engineer beneath the technical rigor.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lakeside SchoolBachelor of Science & Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science & Engineering, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (77)
trading10
cosmos10
ganache10
security10
cryptocurrency10
state-machine10
smart-contracts10
cpp10
p2p10
solidity10
openzeppelin10
firefox10
golang10
rust10
database10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dydxprotocol/dydx-v3-python
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Python client for dYdX (API v3)
Contributions:28 reviews, 10 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years
python
dydxprotocol/solo
Dec 2018 - Oct 2021
dYdX V2 Margin Trading Protocol
Contributions:1 review, 250 commits, 247 PRs in 2 years 11 months
trading
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