Joss Duff
Master's Student And Research Assistant at Lehigh University
East Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoss Duff is a blockchain-focused software engineer and Lehigh University master's student with eight years of hands-on experience building privacy-preserving and production-grade distributed systems. He has led low-level work as a founding engineer on a ZK Ethereum Layer 2 rollup, reverse-engineering prover networks and maintaining OP Stack integrations, and has production experience deploying EVM-compatible embedded databases and Kubernetes clusters. His research bridges theory and practice—his master's thesis targets privacy-preserving compliance for blockchain—and his teaching and course design work show an ability to distill complex topics like smart contract language differences for diverse audiences. Comfortable coding in Rust and building developer tooling, he combines cryptographic systems engineering with a mission-driven interest in fairer financial systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Lehigh University
Github Skills (20)
blockchain9
ethereum9
apollo8
capstone7
reasonml7
react7
flutter7
p2p7
angular6
golang6
go6
vue6
elm6
frontend5
graphql5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JossDuff/JossDuff.github.io
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:54 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
unattended-backpack/monorepo
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
This is the grand unified monorepo managing all Unattended Backpack infrastructure and project code.
Contributions:2 reviews, 38 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 months
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