Ryan Zhou
Co-Founder & COO at Smart Alpha Investments
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Zhou is a Melbourne-based technology entrepreneur and operator with 11 years of experience building and scaling digital businesses, best known as Co-Founder and COO of CoinJar, Australia’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange. He combines product and operational leadership with hands-on technical credentials (MS Computer Science) and a finance background (BCom Finance), enabling him to bridge trading, risk management and engineering teams. Ryan has founded and grown multiple ventures—from Anycast DNS and domain services at NameTerrific to consumer electronics e-commerce at CableGeek—while also managing investment funds focused on ETFs, derivatives and Australian equities. That blend of startup execution, funds management and crypto infrastructure gives him a rare cross-disciplinary view of technology, markets and regulatory nuance. He’s pragmatic about shipping resilient systems and often operates at the intersection of ops, product and capital allocation.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation Studies, Foundation Studies at Trinity College, the University of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne
English, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
bsb10
validation9
ruby-wrapper7
rails-engines7
ecdsa7
woocommerce-api7
ruby-application5
ruby5
finance5
javascript4
elixir3
rest3
amazon-bedrock3
openai-api3
restful-api3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryanzhou/interapp
Sep 2014 - May 2021
Interapp is a mountable Rails engine that handles simple and secure inter-app messaging using ECDSA.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 6 years 9 months
ecdsarails-engines
coinjar/bsb
Oct 2014 - Sep 2022
An easy-to-use BSB number lookup utility and validator.
Contributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 8 years
number-lookupvalidatorvalidationbsb
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