Raymond Z
Co-Founder at Canvas
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRaymond Z is a founder and software engineer with 14 years of experience building distributed systems and product-led startups from New York. As Co-Founder of Canvas he focuses on secure enclave-enabled, local-first runtimes with high availability and peer-to-peer sync for general applications, drawing on prior founding experience at Commonwealth and product leadership at Predata. His background includes engineering roles at fast-moving tech companies like Medium, AngelList, Addepar, and Facebook, giving him deep operational knowledge across web-scale infrastructure and product development. He combines research-minded system design with pragmatic shipping instincts, and often works at the intersection of security, distributed runtime design, and user-focused productization. An alumni of Princeton’s Computer Science program with complementary studies in technology and society and operations research, he brings both technical depth and a systems-level view of product impact.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science; Program in Technology and Society Program in Operations Research, BSE Computer Science; Program in Technology and Society Program in Operations Research at Princeton University
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Github Skills (121)
peer-to-peer10
ipfs10
html-editor10
wysiwyg10
wallet10
rabbitmq10
management10
quill10
router10
compatibility10
text-editing10
contenteditable10
rte10
ethereum10
blockchain10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hicommonwealth/edgeware-keygen
May 2019 - Apr 2021
Keypair generator for Edgeware lockdrop
Contributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 11 months
lockdropkeypair
hicommonwealth/edgeware-homepage
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Edgeware homepage
Contributions:76 commits, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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