Jeff Foley
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeff Foley is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building backend systems and improving consensus reliability in distributed projects. As a project leader for OWASP Amass on GitHub and a contributor to Tendermint Core, he focuses on trust metrics, peer reliability, and robust persistence for consensus components. His work on Tendermint included integrating a trust metric store, addressing race conditions, and adding tests to strengthen peer selection—efforts that directly improve BFT consensus resilience. Comfortable in complex, security-adjacent open-source ecosystems, he blends pragmatic engineering with a clear focus on maintainability and correctness. Notably, his profile hints at a dry wit and attention to legal/operational detail, reflecting a practitioner who cares about both code and context.
10 years of coding experience
lua, ruby, c, golang, python, English
Github Skills (7)
databases10
consensus10
distributed-systems10
go10
blockchain10
database10
cryptography8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tendermint/tendermint
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 78 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing the trust metric system within the Tendermint core. Their work involved integrating a trust metric store, saving and loading history data to and from a database, and implementing functions to manage peer reliability. They also addressed race conditions, improved code maintainability, and added test routines to validate functionality. These efforts centered on refining the core consensus mechanism's peer selection and trust evaluation processes.
consensusgotendermintbftdistributed-systems
caffix/caffix
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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