Okay Zed
Professional at Self
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarOkay Zed is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building products at major tech companies and early-stage ventures, currently serving as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and based in Oakland, California. His career spans Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, and independent work, giving him deep experience in large-scale systems and product-driven engineering. Comfortable oscillating between hands-on coding and self-directed professional projects, he blends pragmatic delivery with curiosity—his GitHub bio cheekily calling him a "part-time human." Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who prevents scope creep by shipping practical solutions while keeping an eye on long-term architecture.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
831reputation
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Github Skills (136)
snorkel10
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slack10
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javascript9
zulip9
web-application9
tournament9
python9
websocket9
collaboration9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
logv/superfluous
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
a node.js app & component server
Contributions:81 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
node-jsjavascriptnodejsserver-sideserver
plaitpy/plaitpy
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
plait.py - a fake data modeler
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
modelerpythondatagenerationfaker
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