Rex Zhou
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRex Zhou is a Co-Founder and Chief Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently leading engineering at Magic Eden where he architects web3 marketplaces and builds smart-contract tooling such as MSigner, M2, MMM, and ERC721M. He previously worked on AI infrastructure and PyTorch dev infra at Facebook and built high-throughput experimentation systems at Uber and Checkr, driving migrations to microservices and shaping engineering culture with RFCs and design reviews. Rex is the creator of popular open-source projects Flagr (feature flagging/A-B testing service with 900+ stars and adoption by 60+ companies) and OpenMock, and has delivered measurable impact such as a DBSCAN-based optimization that reduced vendor costs by ~13%. Combining a Ph.D. in computer science with hands-on systems and blockchain engineering, he moves fluidly between distributed APIs, performance-critical backend systems, and on-chain productization. Based in San Francisco, he pairs startup founder grit with deep infrastructure and open-source pedigree.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
data-modeling10
feature-flags10
go10
api-design10
swagger9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
checkr/jsflagr
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Javascript client for flagr
Contributions:4 releases, 19 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 7 months
javascriptfeature-togglesjavascript-client
checkr/pyflagr
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Python client for flagr
Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 7 months
pythonpython-client
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