Buck Perley
Senior Software Engineer at Unchained Capital
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBuck Perley is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with a decade of full‑stack experience building web and blockchain systems using React/Redux, AngularJS, D3, Node/Express, MongoDB and PostgreSQL. He combines production engineering at startups like Unchained Capital and Tierion with meaningful open-source contributions to bcoin, where he improved wallet and HTTP client APIs for a JavaScript Bitcoin implementation. Comfortable leading teams and shipping product, Buck pairs technical depth with cross-cultural fluency—proficient in business Mandarin—and a track record of organizing developer events and rapidly prototyping boilerplates for hackathons. His background includes building consumer-facing features, backend crypto primitives, and entrepreneurial projects, plus an unusual real-world resilience demonstrated by a Guinness World Record motorcycle journey across China that informed his product and partnership skills.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Student, Javascript, Student, Javascript at Hack ReactorHonours BA with Distinction, Economics, Chinese Language and Society, Honours BA with Distinction, Economics, Chinese Language and Society at University of Toronto - New CollegeHigh School, High School at Horace Mann SchoolChinese Exchange, Mandarin Language, Chinese Exchange, Mandarin Language at Tsinghua University
Spanish, French, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (9)
cryptocurrency10
wallet10
bitcoin10
javascript10
api10
bitcoins10
apidoc10
blockchain10
testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bcoin-org/bcoin
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 33 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Buck primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the bcoin library. Their work included adding parameters for mnemonic options in wallet creation, implementing passphrase handling for key imports, and modifying coin locking methods within the HTTP client. The user also fixed signature issues and made changes related to wallet and HTTP client interactions, demonstrating a focus on API improvements. Additionally, the user implemented and tested changes to outpoint objects.
miningbrowsersnode-jsjavascriptwallet
bucko13/prism
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
The decentralized content platform.
Contributions:66 commits, 36 PRs, 102 pushes in 9 months
ipfsreactdecentralizedcontent-platform
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