Morley Zhi
Staff Software Engineer at Playground
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMorley Zhi is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing web and mobile products and leading frontend teams. As Co-Founder and CTO of Daylight and former Director of Engineering at the Stellar Development Foundation, he has shipped resilient React/React Native applications that integrate with Stellar payments rails to solve real-world problems like inflation protection in Argentina. He combines hands-on frontend craftsmanship—linting, formatting, dependency hardening and metadata handling for the popular js-stellar-sdk—with product-minded roadmapping and reliable release practices. Morley has repeatedly scaled small teams to deliver complex UIs and financial integrations, and brings a rare mix of startup grit, open-source stewardship, and pragmatic attention to code quality.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Marketing, BS Marketing at New York University
Github Skills (19)
uitest10
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
horizon10
eslint10
pretier10
moc10
sdk10
chai10
typescript-types10
prettify10
nodejs10
typescripts10
git9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stellar/js-stellar-sdk
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Main Stellar client library for the JavaScript language.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 1 review, 20 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Morley primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability through standardized coding style implementation. They introduced linting, code formatting, and pre-commit hooks, enhancing code consistency and identifying potential issues. Furthermore, the user updated project dependencies to address security vulnerabilities and implemented features related to fetching base fees and timebounds. They also added functionality for handling the metadata in transaction responses.
javascriptstellarblockchaincryptocurrencyhorizon
morleyzhi/bootstrap.sh
Dec 2015 - Jul 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 8 months
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