Micah Zoltu
Self Employed
Kiribati
Summary
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Top SchoolMicah Zoltu is a founder and seasoned engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, networking, server development, and incentive-aware mechanism design. He combines hands-on backend and full-stack work with entrepreneurial leadership through Serv.eth Support and independent engineering engagements. Micah has contributed to prominent open-source blockchain projects—helping harden the Nethermind Ethereum client and improving Augur’s prediction-market stack—demonstrating practical expertise in Ethereum clients, JSON-RPC compliance, WebSockets, and IPFS integration. His background includes senior engineering at New Relic and early systems work at Blizzard, giving him a blend of production-scale telemetry and game/engine experience. Based in Kiribati, he brings a global, self-directed perspective and a penchant for refactoring and asynchronous systems correctness. Collectedly, he focuses on making distributed ledger software more robust, maintainable, and incentive-aligned.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Alaska Fairbanks
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
json-rpc10
solidity10
back-end-development10
python10
http10
typescript10
rpc10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
dotnet-core10
refactoring10
typescripts10
csharp10
react10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
NethermindEth/nethermind
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
A robust execution client for Ethereum node operators.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 16 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Micah contributed to the Nethermind Ethereum client by addressing JSON-RPC specification compliance, specifically related to handling null IDs in requests. They also improved code quality by moving WebSocketsManager instantiation to the API Builder and updating the WebSocket module name parsing. Furthermore, the user made several code improvements, fixing compiler warnings and errors. They also added features to enhance plugin functionality within the system and refactored the code to allow for asynchronous disposals.
dotnetlinux-windowswindowsethereumblockchain
Zoltu/StubKafkaBroker
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 10 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 months
golangwirestubbrokerkafka
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