Josh Vorick
Founding Engineer at Polynomic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Vorick is a Founding Engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building 0→1 products across manufacturing, cybersecurity, finance, and clinical research. He has led complex forward-deployed engineering efforts at Palantir that turned messy, multi-source workflows into actionable platforms and shipped production trading systems at Two Sigma that moved billions in assets. A repeat founder, Josh raised pre-seed capital and scaled two B2B startups to revenue while also launching BlockHire to help engineers navigate the crypto space. He contributes to open-source blockchain tooling—having optimized mining and block management code for the Sia project—and brings deep backend and distributed-systems chops across Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, and Go. Based in New York, he combines hands-on technical leadership with a knack for translating ambiguous problems into measurable business outcomes. An understated strength: he frequently surfaces meaningful operational savings through pragmatic automation and instrumentation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School, General Education, High School, General Education at William Fremd High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
go10
blockchain10
decentralization9
storage8
distribute8
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NebulousLabs/Sia
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Blockchain-based marketplace for file storage. Project has moved to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh focused on improving the miner module within the Sia blockchain project. Their contributions included fixing a mutex double lock issue and optimizing the block manager by storing more blocks for work. They also implemented and tested core functionalities related to block management, header submission, and the overall mining process, demonstrating a strong understanding of the Sia blockchain's underlying mechanics.
marketplacefile-storageblockchaingitlabdecentralized
JoshVorick/VisualizingComplexFunctions
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 1 push in 8 months
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