Joey Zhou
Self at Family Office
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Zhou is a seasoned software engineer and principal-level technologist with 12+ years building high-performance financial systems, crypto infrastructure, and IoT protocols. He’s led engineering and modernization efforts for startups and federal agencies, designing matching engines, derivatives and OTC platforms, AML/KYC pipelines, and payment gateways. An early Ethereum core developer and contributor to go-ethereum and aleth, he has deep hands‑on experience with Bitcoin full-node stacks, payment channels, and low-level protocol work. Joey codes in Go, Rust, Node.js and Swift, and combines systems-level rigor with product instincts honed as a first engineer at crypto startups and an innovations engineer at large enterprises. Beyond software, he actively manages high-cash-flow real estate and angel investments in niche SaaS, bringing a founder’s perspective to technical strategy and commercial execution. He’s unusually cross-disciplinary—comfortable from genome assembly research to clearing‑house integrations—making him adept at translating complex technical risks into operational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Psychology, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (33)
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javascript10
c-language10
back-end-development10
testing10
evm10
command-line-interface10
data-structure10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
data-structures10
smart-contracts10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/blurts-server
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Mozilla Monitor arms you with tools to keep your personal information safe. Find out what hackers already know about you and learn how to stay a step ahead of them.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 1017 reviews, 242 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Joey's contributions primarily focused on adding and modifying scripts and controllers related to breach detection and monitoring. Their work involved updating documentation, refactoring existing code, and implementing new features such as a breach details page. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the project's architecture, including its interaction with external services like HIBP and its integration with Firefox Remote Settings. Their work involved various one-off scripts for data processing and email handling, indicating a focus on backend functionality.
firefoxmonitorkeepprivacydata-breach
ethereum/aleth
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Aleth – Ethereum C++ client, tools and libraries
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Joey contributed to the core functionality of the Aleth Ethereum client. They implemented new commands like "transact," "send," and "contract" to interact with the Ethereum network, enabling users to execute transactions and create contracts. The commits show the integration of new features with existing components, including balance retrieval, and address handling. Additionally, the user worked on parsing data and listing contracts.
ethereumcppethereum-clientevm
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