Thomas Zhou

Experimental development to build, incubate and sell various micro products

• Launched Alpha.re, a research data product for Web3 projects
• Launched and sold MetaList, a market research tool for startups
• Launched MetaPay, a chrome extension wallet for the Stellar network
• Launched Pushtable.com, a headless CMS for Google Firestore

Commit started from a team spun off of Galaxy Digital's Vancouver office. I was part of the founding members and we 

• Worked on internal open source dev ops tooling 
• Worked with the ex director of Sales at Hootsuite to build a sales performance management workspace that competed with Scratchpad and Dooly.ai
• Built initial MVP for planworth.co a financial planning software
• Tech stack: Kubernetes, GoLang, React, GraphQL, Typescript

Galaxy Digital is a merchant bank based in New York. It's one of the leaders in the Blockchain industry. I worked on the product team as well as on client advisory projects.

• Led development for a joint venture with Vopak to explore using the Hyperledger blockchain to track voyages for the shipping industry
• Developed a platform to issue and manage securitized tokens with integrated KYC/AML
• Tech stack: Kubernetes, GoLang, Swagger, ReactJS, Typescript, Jest

Oversaw the acquisition of VisualCV. Led a lean development team that rebuilt and turned around a failing SaaS product. In two years, we grew it to over 2M in ARR.

• Architected a service oriented architecture on AWS using RDS Postgres, S3 and Fargate
• Through SEO, product integrations and content apps, grew user base 5X
• Launched a mobile strategy that reached the top page for "resume" on Android and iOS
• Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, ReactJS, Cordova, NodeJS

Raised $175k in seed capital, launched a suite of human resource products that connected candidates and companies by leveraging an emerging webRTC standard.

• Developed KarmaHire, an applicant tracking system with integrated technical testing
• Leveraged WebRTC technologies to allow companies to host online career fairs through the browser. It supported chat rooms, and teleconferencing
• Attracted corporate clients such as BuildDirect, City of Prince George, UCLA, Dartmouth

• Worked on electronics design and built a glitch signal generator on a multi-layered printed circuit board (PCB) using Cadence.
• Wrote randomized test suites using System Verilog following the Open Verification Methodology (OVM).

I worked on 6G SAS controllers setting up RAID topology test benches with 400+ hard drives. I was responsible for developing automated test suites to expose bugs and communicating with the firmware team in Shanghai to coordinate firmware releases.

A member of the R&D team for methanol fuel cells, I was responsible for designing various test procedures as well as test equipments. I frequently used Solidworks to design 3D CAD models as well to draft technical drawings for fabrication.

• 1st and 2nd place prizes in multiple new venture competitions across North America for Luminex, Automated Daylighting project ($15k in prizes)
• 1st place in the Engineering Physics Robotics Competition
• UBC Supermileage, car body design using computational fluid dynamics
• Dean's Honor List, President's Entrance Scholar, National Biology Scholar