Zaz Brown
Research Assistant at Kent State University
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolZaz Brown is a software engineer and mathematician with 13 years of experience who blends rigorous theory with practical systems engineering to inform better decision-making. Currently a Research Assistant at Kent State, Zaz co-developed the first Byzantine-robust geometric routing algorithm that avoids state and cryptographic primitives and presented the work at national mathematics meetings. Prior to academia, they founded HyperTurtle, building bespoke Rails and Node.js web apps and cutting hosting costs by 90% through composable deployment strategies. Zaz is pursuing advanced computer science study at Cambridge while augmenting their quantitative toolkit with MITx MicroMasters in Finance and Data Science. Known for attacking hard, interdisciplinary problems, they pair deep mathematical insight with production-grade engineering to deliver novel, cost-effective solutions.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MicroMasters, Finance, MicroMasters, Finance at MITx CoursesMathematics, 3.9 / 4.0, Mathematics, 3.9 / 4.0 at Kent State UniversityMathematics, 3.7 / 4.0, Mathematics, 3.7 / 4.0 at The Ohio State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (200)
python10
srs10
vim10
lua10
find-and-replace10
statistics10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
casperjs10
api10
emacs10
netsuite10
git10
retention10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
zaz/form2email
Dec 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
zaz/6.419-jupyterbook
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:37 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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