Kevin Jue
Peer Mentor at County of Lassen
Susanville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Jue is a resilient peer mentor and back-end developer with nine years of experience combining hands-on blockchain contributions and deep community-based behavioral health work. Based in Susanville, CA, he has contributed to the core Celo blockchain, adding multi-currency fee support, transaction-pool enhancements, and exchange-rate caching—work that touches a major open-source cryptocurrency project. His professional path spans public service roles from county behavioral health and veteran services to state correctional institutions, equipping him with practical experience in crisis intervention, case management, and records/legal research. Kevin pairs technical aptitude (microcomputer training and open-source code contributions) with lived experience overcoming addiction, homelessness, and trauma, which informs his empathetic mentorship. Currently completing legal studies at Harvard Law School, he leverages a rare combination of technical, administrative, and lived-experience insight to inspire hope and practical change for people facing extreme adversity.
8 years of coding experience
Certificate: Microcomputer Operator, Certificate: Microcomputer Operator at Diablo Unified School DistrictAssociate of Science - AS, Law, Associate of Science - AS, Law at Harvard Law SchoolAerospace Ground Equipment Technology, Aerospace Ground Equipment Technology at Chanute Technical Training Center Chanute Air Force Base Rantoul IllinoisUniversity of California, Berkeley - School of LawAssociate of Arts, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Associate of Arts, Business Administration, Management and Operations at American InterContinental University
Spanish
Github Skills (4)
blockchain10
go10
testing10
web3js9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
celo-org/celo-blockchain
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Official repository for the golang Celo Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 56 commits, 100 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's primary contributions focused on enhancing the core Celo blockchain's functionality and efficiency. Their work included disabling goimport lint checks, updating imports, and supporting multi-currency fee transactions. They also made changes to the transaction pool worker for multi-currency fee support and added test cases for the changes. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating and periodically refreshing the exchange rate cache, and balance checks within the transaction pool.
golangcelo-blockchainethereumblockchainweb3
succinctlabs/gnark-plonky2-verifier
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:6 reviews, 59 PRs, 167 pushes in 9 months
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