Zoe Nolan is a senior blockchain engineer and seasoned technical leader based in Nottingham with 28 years of systems and GPU engineering experience and 13 years focused on blockchain and distributed systems. She has led engineering for institutional settlement systems and DeFi platforms, architecting solutions used by tier-1 banks and launching a BaFin-regulated AMM managing $100M+ in assets. As CTO and founding engineer at Zien she built an NFT and AI-infused platform that achieved >99.9% uptime and earned acquisition-level recognition from the Centre Pompidou. Zoe excels at scaling cross-border teams and delivery processes, having grown Clearmatics’ engineering organisation from 4 to 22 with markedly improved retention. Her background spans low-level GPU microcode and video codecs to high-level blockchain interoperability and on-chain oracles, giving her rare end-to-end technical fluency. She combines institutional-grade security and regulatory experience with a product-first mindset for building useful systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments at University of Hull
Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
Contributions:8 PRs, 18 pushes, 25 branches in 7 years 3 months
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