Zane Starr
Co-Founder at OpenRPC
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolZane Starr is a seasoned software engineer and repeat founder with 14 years of experience building infrastructure, microservices, and decentralized systems from startup prototypes to production at scale. Based in Los Angeles, he co-founded OpenRPC and 1o1.art and currently focuses on shipping decentralized web and blockchain tooling through Create Dream Tech and freelance engagements. Technically fluent across Go, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, Solidity, Docker, and cloud platforms, he brings deep hands-on experience in databases and syncable systems—having contributed backend improvements to the notable Noms project. He pairs protocol-level thinking with pragmatic product delivery, often turning fringe or speculative ideas into deployable open-source solutions. Known for leading technical partnerships and accelerator-vetted projects at Ethereum Classic Labs and building early Metamask-based auth flows at ConsenSys, he blends ecosystem leadership with implementation chops. An endlessly curious builder, Zane seeks the intersection of novel research and shipping reliable software.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (23)
admin10
databases10
data-serialization10
database-administration10
serialization10
data-versioning10
go10
database10
testing9
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
csv-parser9
csv9
datastructures-algorithms9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
attic-labs/noms
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
The versioned, forkable, syncable database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 35 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zane primarily focused on enhancing the `noms` database's internal functionalities. Their commits demonstrate efforts to improve data encoding for number keys, which included modifications to human-readable serialization and testing. They also introduced specific CSV importing capabilities, altering how struct fields are handled during the import process, which resulted in the CamelCaseFieldName and related functions. Additional work involved the safe handling of program execution, including the return of error messages and the implementation of new API calls.
relational-databaseversioneddatabasedatabases
createdreamtech/carti
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Carti Package Manager CLI
Contributions:24 releases, 205 commits, 109 PRs in 3 months
package-managercli
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