Zane Helton is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience building full‑stack products and infrastructure across fintech, SaaS, and consumer web, with hands-on expertise in Go, TypeScript, React, Elixir, Rust, and Python. He’s shipped large-scale features at Coinbase, led 0-to-1 builds as a founder, and designed parallel AI inference architectures and billing flows for customer-facing products. Comfortable owning outcomes end-to-end, Zane excels in fast‑moving teams where product and engineering are tightly coupled and has a track record improving developer experience and reliability. Beyond fintech, he also builds creative tooling—authoring a React/MIDI piano trainer—and is open to roles in Germany or the Netherlands, eligible for Germany’s EU Blue Card.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Memorize piano scales with ease! A piano practice program w/ MIDI support. Consider it an interactive reference manual 🎹
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 86 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zane primarily focused on implementing the user interface for the piano trainer application. Their contributions include setting up the initial React-based application structure, integrating MIDI input, and developing interactive piano components using the `react-piano` library. They incorporated soundfont functionality for piano playback and added features like scale selection and quiz mode. The user also made improvements to the overall UI design, enhancing the user experience.
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