Wayne Zhou

// portfolio

Wayne's Greatest
(and Questionable) Hits

01

Rocket-Powered To-Do List

A to-do list that uses blockchain, AI, WebSockets, Kubernetes, and 47 microservices. It takes 12 minutes to boot up and requires a dedicated DevOps team. But once it's running, you can add a task in under 200 milliseconds. Currently seeking Series A funding.

over-engineered beyond reasonTypeScriptRustWASMAWSyour patience
02

Code So Fast It Broke the Internet

This was supposed to be a simple sorting algorithm demo. But Wayne wrote it so efficiently that it sorted itself into a higher dimension, briefly creating a localized spacetime anomaly that caused Stack Overflow to return 503 errors for approximately 0.3 seconds. (Note: The Stack Overflow outage was probably unrelated.)

theoretical physicsGoAssemblydark mattercoincidence?
03

The World's Most Over-Engineered Coffee Timer

It's a 3-second setTimeout. But with WebSockets. A Redis cache. A Kubernetes cluster with auto-scaling. A CI/CD pipeline. A Slack integration. A dedicated team of 4 developers. And it still doesn't make the coffee. The board is very optimistic about Q3 deliverables.

funding round closes Q4KubernetesRedisWebSocketszero coffee
04

Bug Farm Simulator 3000

Why squash bugs when you can farm them? A gamified bug tracker where you collect, breed, and trade bugs like Pokemon. Includes rare spawns: 'Heisenbug' (appears only when you're watching), 'Mandelbug' (the bug reproduces more bugs), and the legendary 'SmoreBug' (a marshmallow bug - completely unrelated to software).

47 bug reports filedReactWebSocketPokemon parodymeta
05

The Button That Does Nothing

A single button. When you click it, absolutely nothing happens. The code is pristine, well-documented, and has 100% test coverage. It's the most reliable thing Wayne has ever built, and he is deeply proud of it. Over 10,000 users have clicked it, and 100% of them were disappointed.

production readyReact100% coveragedisappointment
06

AI That Writes Commit Messages for Your AI

An AI that writes commit messages for the AI that writes your code. It generates messages like 'feat: improved something somewhere' and 'fix: fixed a thing that was broken (maybe)'. The AI's AI is currently training an AI to review its own code reviews. Wayne has created a bureaucracy of bots.

inception achievedAImeta-AIbureaucracyhelp