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Ray Gao

Backend Engineer

// the bahamas, bs · UTC-5

🚀 make things

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Scouting report

Bahamas-based backend dev working in Rust, Circom and zero-knowledge cryptography

assessed from open-source footprint

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A Bahamas backend engineer with the most distinctive niche in this batch: cryptography, Circom, elliptic curves and finite fields alongside Rust and JavaScript. His top original repos carry real traction — NFTA Tornado Resources (23 stars, ZK demo-series archive) and SoundBolt (10 stars, a SoundCloud clone). Caveat: abandonedRatio is 0.93 and there are no authorship signals, so the starred work appears older and inactive, but the ZK-crypto focus is genuine and differentiated.

Authorship & open source

Major contributorwrote 25% of commits on NFTA-Tornado-Resources
0 merged PRs0 commits / yr

What they build

Backend54%
Frontend34%
Systems9%

Industry experience

  • Developer Tools
  • Gaming
  • Media & Streaming

Signal breakdown

Originality72
Impact66
Consistency63
Polish55
Stars

81

top repo 23

Original repos

15

21% forks

Followers

0

On GitHub

12.9 yr

Live demos

3

Activity

Active

93% stale

Strengths

  • Major contributor on their flagship repositories
  • Original builder — 15 of their own repositories
  • 81 stars earned across projects
  • Ships to production — 3 live demos
  • Backend focus with Frontend
  • Domain experience in Developer Tools & Gaming
  • Core stack: JavaScript, Rust, Ruby, Circom

About

🚀 make things — 19 public repositories and 0 followers on GitHub.

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • Rust
  • Circom
  • Ruby
  • Cryptography
  • C#
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • Finite Fields

Featured work

NFTA Tornado Resources

Archive resources for individual episodes in the Tornado demo series

  • Circom

by Ray Gao

SoundBolt

SoundBolt is a SoundCloud clone that allows users to stream music in a one page app

  • JavaScript

by Ray Gao

ecc

Base-level implementation of elliptic curve cryptography, including field arithmetics.

  • Rust
  • Cryptography
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • Finite Fields

by Ray Gao

Wallet Ecdsa

Binary utility for signing arbitrary document with Ethereum wallet accounts. Using Secp256k1 Rust wrapper

  • Rust
  • Cryptography
  • Ecdsa
  • Ethereum

by Ray Gao

NFTA Tornado

TornadoCash demo series deployment with full ZK-SNARK setup on Goerli.

  • JavaScript

by Ray Gao

CandyCrushLite

Abbreviated version of candy crush. Procedural geometric clearing with shape detection in 2D space.

  • JavaScript

by Ray Gao