Mark Joseph
Core Engineer at Zorkitron Protocol
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Joseph is a Core Engineer and seasoned Web3 developer based in California with 17 years of software experience and 4+ years focused on Solidity and EVM smart contract development. He builds non-custodial DeFi systems and composable liquidity primitives—currently architecting Zorkitron, a passive-income yield generator for Uniswap v4, and authoring Uniswap v4 hooks to optimize LP fees and market efficiency. Equally at home in front-end engineering, he delivers pixel-perfect React/Redux interfaces and Web3 wallet integrations, having contributed UI work to notable projects like a React audio visualizer and the Balanced dashboard. His toolkit spans ERC20/721/1155 standards, gas optimization, staking, AMMs, and token security, with a practical emphasis on production-ready UX and protocol safety. As a blockchain educator at DeFi Developer Academy and an active open-source contributor, he blends mentorship with hands-on protocol design. Notably, his background includes large-scale SaaS and consumer web experience (Demandbase, eBay, Fitbit), giving him rare breadth from enterprise front-ends to low-level EVM mechanics.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
San Francisco State UniversityBachelor of Arts English General Literature and Rhetoric, Bachelor of Arts English General Literature and Rhetoric at Binghamton UniversityHDMaster of Science in Information Technology eBusiness Technology, Master of Science in Information Technology eBusiness Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Italian
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Github Skills (16)
emberjs10
javascript10
handlebars10
react10
html9
css9
testing8
facebook-graph-api6
algorithm6
href6
activerecord6
flash6
file-upload6
hyperlink6
google-analytics6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hackingbeauty/react-mic
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Record audio from a user's microphone and display a cool visualization.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 298 commits, 26 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on building the React-based UI for the audio recording and visualization component. They added the core functionality of recording audio from the user's microphone and implemented features like displaying a waveform visualization. The user also worked on integrating a demo page with controls for recording and saving the audio. Key changes included the addition of a visualizer, and integration of the ReactMic component.
getusermediawav-audiovoice-recognitionvoice-appvoice-activated
balanced/balanced-dashboard
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
The Balanced dashboard.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on developing and enhancing the user interface of the Balanced dashboard. Their contributions included implementing a new Events page, fixing bugs in existing components, and adding an inflection helper for pluralization. The changes also involved modifying templates and integrating new features to improve the display of event data, including webhooks. Furthermore, the user updated the existing test suite to accommodate the new features.
balanceddashboard
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