Jeff Zhao
Software Engineer at Abacus Works
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Zhao is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Rust and blockchain infrastructure, currently building backend systems at Abacus Works after recent roles focused on Rust-based rollup and enclave integrations. He has shipped production crypto primitives and L2 integrations for companies like Circle, Alder Labs, and Puffer Labs, pairing low-level systems work with practical product delivery. His open-source contributions include full-stack work on joshuto, a ranger-like terminal file manager in Rust, showing strength in TUI design and performant backend code. Earlier roles at IBM and Spire Trading demonstrate a background in high-performance runtime engineering and quantitative systems, while his teaching assistantships at the University of Toronto reflect a habit of explaining complex topics clearly. Notably, he blends systems-level optimizations (e.g., runtime and enclave work) with developer-facing tooling and open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (11)
rust10
tui9
file-manager8
text-editor7
editor7
editors7
struct6
ssl6
curl6
pointer6
testing5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kamiyaa/joshuto
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 155 reviews, 1034 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jeff appears to be responsible for implementing features and improvements within the joshuto terminal file manager, with contributions spanning both front-end (TUI) and back-end (Rust) aspects. They integrated a new feature for handling subdirectories, modified file preview functions and implemented improvements. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Rust programming, TUI frameworks and potentially related domain knowledge within the context of a terminal file manager.
concurrencyclipboardrusttui-rsfilemanager
kamiyaa/config
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:46 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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