WORK EXPERIENCE
Paymagic Labs | Full-Stack Engineer, 2022-Present
- Seed stage startup raised $2M+ from Ethereal, 1kx, Blocktower, and Pillar Ventures
Paymagic Safes: Automated payment system built on the Gnosis Safe ecosystem
- Role: Frontend Lead and Full-Stack Developer
- Built stack to deploy >1000 multi-sig wallets for 9 clients across 6 chains
- Pioneered Zodiac plugins for Safe, implementing automated payments with optimistic payouts
- Developed encoder/decoder for Safe transactions
Dustsweeper: DEX for small token balances cleanup
- Role: Frontend and API Lead, Founding Member of Dustsweeper DAO
- Led development of user interface and API integration
- Still live and used today with thousands of users swapping saving over 65 ETH in volume.
Patch Wallet: Wallet abstraction solution for social accounts
- Role: Frontend and SDK Lead
- First social ERC-4337 account abstraction wallet to launch in production
- Over 400k wallets deployed on Polygon and opBNB, Built NFT drop app with over 4k mints on Polygon
- Created and launched Patch Wallet SDK and PWA apps
Validity.id | Co-founder, 2023-2024
- Blockchain-based academic credential verification system
- Sole blockchain engineer for on-chain zero knowledge proof contract factories
- Led development of secure full-stack solution for diploma contract deployment and data encoding
- Worked with Duke Registrar Office to create battle-tested systems to issue and verify diploma credentials
- Implemented production-ready system encoding and passing diploma data for Duke University and Rice University graduates on-chain
- The Validity Registry allows alums and external institutions to instantly validate Duke credentials at Duke registrar website
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CollegeFork | Founder & CEO, 2016 – 2019
- Education platform simplifying college application process
- Secured funding from MIT Launch program
- Developed algorithms for customized college ranking and matching algorithms
- Created user-friendly UI with self-developed JavaScript framework and Python backend
EDUCATION
Duke University | Durham, NC
- MEng, Financial Technology, Pratt School of Engineering
- BS, Economics, Trinity College of Arts and Science
- BA, German, Trinity College of Arts and Science
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TEACHING & MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE
ETH Denver 2024 | Mentor, 2024
- Conducted blockchain and full-stack development workshops
- Provided one-on-one assistance to teams, helping resolve technical issues
TechX Academy | Lecturer / Student Academic Lead, Summers 2019-2021
- Taught Full-Stack Web Development, covering modern dev stack, history, and working mechanisms
- Collaborated with MIT Media Lab professors on human-computer interaction courses
- Developed TechX cloud platform with internal communication, version control, and file sharing capabilities
Duke University | Guest Lecturer, Consultant, Tech Consultant at OIT Innovation Co-Lab, 2018-2022
- Led programming seminars and office hours for student developers
- Guest lectured on Web Development for deploying web applications and FinTech Blockchain for smart contract development; consulted on Data Structure and Software Engineering projects
- Managed development of educational tools including chat servers and web-based code editors, and managed ruby-on-rails backend for school services at OIT Co-Lab
- Organized coding bootcamps covering Command-Line, React, and Node.js
Other PROJECTS
- Viral.games A Prediction Market for Social Media. Bet on what goes viral on X, YouTube, and Farcaster.
- Directly consumes markets on
- Implemented cron jobs and webhooks for real-time bet processing based on social media interactions
- usr.id Off-chain/cross-chain resolver for ENS
- Deployed standalone CCIP server for cross-chain resolution
- Implemented username and domain registration/resolving for multiple projects, including Linea Domains
- Degen.game Novel web3 social games for the farcaster ecosystem
- Shipped farcaster client specialized for frames and games with PWA and native support
- Created and launched multiple seasons of frame based games on farcaster, with thousands of active users
- Telegram and Discord bot development with autoreply and mini games
- Multiple contracting work for clients, Modern Responsive Website with CMS based on JAM stack
- Ticketing service and E-Commerce web app with WeChat integration
- End-to-end encrypted instant messenger
- Private git and personal web drive service on homelab server, deployed on *.lxc.xyz domain
SKILLS
Blockchain Development
- Smart contract development and deployment (ERC-4337, multi-chain entry point contracts)
- Experienced in Hardhat, Foundry, Viem, web3.js, and ethers.js
- ENS, Safe, and CCIP integration
- Blockchain transaction encoding/decoding
- SDK development for blockchain wallets
Full-Stack Web Development
- Integration of blockchain functionality into web applications
- Backend: Node.js, Deno, Bun, Ruby on Rails, API aggregation and endpoint development
- Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES-Next), React, Next.js, Vue.js, Svelte, Tailwind, Astro
- Database: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, modern ORMs, supabase, convex
System Administration DevOps
- Linux server management, experience with bare metal, cloud (VPS and EC2), and container deployment;
- Experienced with serverless and creating CI/CD pipelines, worked with AWS (CDK), Vercel, pipedream and Railway in production environments under stress, had exposure to Azure, Google Cloud, Aliyun, and other cloud providers
- Deployment and maintenance of various services including G-Suite, E-Commerce platforms, and private cloud solutions
Additional Skills
- Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop,
- Experience in designing user-friendly interfaces for blockchain applications
- Version control (Git), development environment optimization, video editing, hardware repair and customization
LANGUAGES
Mandarin (fluent), English (fluent), German (Conversational)
INTERESTS
Philosophy of Economics, CLI and dev environment optimization, Cultural Exploration and Traveling, Innovative Learning Approaches