Chris Z
Tech Lead at LiquidFi
South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Z is a Tech Lead and technical generalist with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable distributed systems, currently leading engineering at LiquidFi where he helped digitize mortgages using blockchain. He specializes in Python APIs, Django/DRF backends, Celery/RabbitMQ-based scaling, AWS serverless architectures, and secure Solidity smart contract design. As founder of LazyFA he built and monetized a data-driven investment platform analyzing 25 years of financial data across 15,000+ US securities, combining product, analytics and engineering skills. His background spans security-focused platform work (large-scale phishing simulation) to mentoring and course development, reflecting both operational rigor and a knack for teaching. Based in South Carolina, he blends entrepreneurial instincts with production-grade system design and an appetite for data-driven problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at SUNY Schenectady County Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (51)
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django8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ckz8780/django_bs4_starter_template
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
Code-Institute-Org/ci-react-core-introduction-to-jsx
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
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