Mo Balaa
Founder & CEO at Hintjen
Starkville, Mississippi, United States
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Top SchoolMo Balaa is an applied distributed systems engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, privacy-preserving and self-hosted infrastructure. As Founder & CEO of Hintjen and former Co-Founder & CTO of Decentralabs, he led research and production efforts in decentralized operating systems, edge computing, and protocols like DSNP while commercializing privacy-preserving tooling. His background spans platform engineering, CI/CD and blockchain work—from designing distributed rendering and high-performance data pipelines to assembling ZK proof circuits and Solidity contracts. Based in Starkville, MS, he combines deep systems craftsmanship with product instincts, having shipped developer tooling and the Noteworthy self-hosting platform. A practical tinkerer, he has a history of repurposing academic and on-prem ideas into resilient cloud services and novel distributed deployments.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Mississippi State University
English
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
homeserver10
nodejs10
php10
python10
docker-desktop10
wireguard10
docker-container10
docker-compose10
matrix-org10
ai-chat10
sni10
localhost10
nginx10
server10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
decentralabs/noteworthy
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Noteworthy is a collection of experimental meta-protocols for building, deploying and managing distributed overlay networks.
Contributions:2 reviews, 26 PRs, 54 pushes in 9 months
deployingprotocolsnoteworthyospfprotocol
hintjen/selfhosted-gateway
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Self-hosted Docker native tunneling to localhost. Expose local docker containers to the public Internet via a simple docker compose interface.
Contributions:9 reviews, 8 commits, 32 PRs in 4 months
dockerdocker-composedocker-containerlocalhostnginx
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