Stephen Tse
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorStephen Tse is a seasoned founder and technology leader focused on scalable, trust-minimizing decentralized platforms. As the founder of Harmony, he is building a fast, open mainnet for decentralized apps with advanced sharding, instant finality, and on-chain token economics. Before Harmony, he founded Spotsetter, a social-search startup acquired by Apple, and held senior engineering roles at Google and Apple, contributing to search ranking and Maps infrastructure. He earned a PhD in cryptographic protocols and functional compilers from the University of Pennsylvania, underscoring his work at the intersection of security, type theory, and distributed systems. His career also spans research at Microsoft Research and development of OCaml-based tooling, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and practical engineering leadership. Based in Palo Alto, California, he is actively building technologies that merge AI, blockchain, and scalable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (38)
contracts10
consensus10
harmony10
sharding10
ethereum10
blockchain10
quorum10
blockchain-network10
distributed-ledger-technology9
corda9
otpauth6
secured5
benchmark4
cryptocurrency4
bitcoin4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
harmony-one/docs-home
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
Harmony Documentation
Contributions:10 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
blockchainblockchain-networkcordaharmonyquorum
harmony-one/harmony
Jan 2019 - Aug 2024
The core protocol of harmony
Contributions:25 comments, 1 issue in 5 years 7 months
consensusproof-of-stakeethereumblockchainsharding
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