Joe Zakielarz

CS & MechE @ Duke, grad May 24. Neo Scholar. Fullstack software engineer. Co-founded FINRA & SEC compliant equity crowdfunding marketplace, co-founded $100k revenue/yr college shipping company, & interned at Series A startup Mem.ai.

Technical Projects

Kaleido: TreeHacks Hackathon Category Winner

TreeHacks Winner of “InterSystems: Best Use of GenAI.” Chrome extension, highlights bias in news articles relative to semantically similar articles.

Save Samurai: HackDuke 2023 Winner (Finance Track)

Hackathon project that uses GPT4 to analyze credit card spending history and give recommendations for spending cuts. Generates written report and graphs of optimal spending by category. "Slash your spendings!"

Mem.Ai: Summer 2023 Internship

Built chrome extension, AI meeting briefing tool, and Chat Suggestions for Mem.Ai, an OpenAI & a16z backed Series A startup

BlockStreet: Multichain NFT Marketplace

Solo built an NFT Marketplace on Ethereum and Polygon with social functionality; zero-code, full collection minting with metadata pinned on IPFS; wallet aggregation and user account creation; and auctions, listings, transfers, burns, and more.

University Shipping & Storage: $100k ARR Business

Co-Founder of Duke's only student-owned, student-run storage business that services students all along the East Coast north of Durham by offering the transportation of belongings to and from Duke, along with storage services over the summer and fall semesters for students.

XLR8: A Blockchain-Powered Car Racing Game

NFT racing game where users "fuse" component NFTs to create their own unique cars. Wrote the smart contracts and deployed custom Chainlink node on AWS EC2 with Docker and used AWS Lambda for secure data link to MongoDB.

I built an SEC & FINRA compliant fintech company!

As of October 2024, it has $80k of volume invested through the site.

Work Experience

  1. Company
    Loupt
    Role
    CPO & Founding Engineer
    Date
  2. Company
    Mem.Ai
    Role
    Software Engineer
    Date
  3. Company
    Ozura
    Role
    Software / Blockchain Engineer
    Date