Corey Petty
Chief Evangelist at Hashing It Out Podcast
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Petty is a security-focused blockchain evangelist and communicator with 11+ years driving open-source and ecosystem work across projects like Status, Logos, and the Institute of Free Technology. With a PhD in Computational Chemical Physics, he brings rigorous scientific thinking to blockchain security, having contributed practical tooling such as Python Etherscan bindings and infrastructure hardening at Status. He co-hosts and co-founded influential podcasts (Hashing It Out, The Bitcoin Podcast), translating deep technical concepts into accessible conversations that shape community understanding. Corey’s career blends hands-on development, adversarial security testing, and portfolio-level program management, all aimed at protecting civil liberties in the digital age. Based in North Carolina, he’s equally at home refactoring APIs as he is running a podcast — a rare mix of researcher, builder, and public communicator.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical Physics at Texas Tech UniversityUniversity of Texas at Tyler
Portuguese
Github Skills (6)
api10
python10
ethereum10
apidoc10
http-request9
jupyter-notebook8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
corpetty/py-etherscan-api
Jun 2016 - Mar 2022
Python bindings to the Etherscan.io API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 43 commits, 27 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Corey significantly contributed to the `py-etherscan-api` project by implementing several key features and making significant improvements. They refactored the HTTP connection, implemented setup.py for easier installation, and added Jupyter Notebook examples. Furthermore, they fixed a bug related to the account balance retrieval and improved the URL creation methodology, resulting in enhancements in code quality and functionality. The user also added internal transaction support and related examples and updated the setup file to work with pypi.
apipythonetherscanethereumpython-bindings
corpetty/go-alethio-api
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Alethio API client written in golang
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
golangapialethioapi-client
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