Hao Chen
Chief Technology Officer at Sancus Ventures
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarHao Chen is Chief Technology Officer at PIP Labs and a Palo Alto–based web3 builder and angel investor with nine years of experience launching crypto projects end-to-end. He previously led engineering at Harmony, architecting networking, consensus and view-change algorithms, plus RPC infrastructure while growing validator communities and ecosystem partnerships. Before web3 he built foundational infrastructure at Amazon — leading the NVMe-based storage virtualization engine that powered Nitro I3 instances (3.3M IOPS) — and helped unify FireOS across Kindle and Fire TV devices. At PIP Labs he drives technical strategy, protocol design, SDK/API and first‑party apps while scaling high‑performing engineering teams. His background uniquely blends low-level systems and DevOps rigor with protocol research and ecosystem development, enabling rapid movement from prototype to production across cloud, OS and blockchain domains.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (113)
sharding10
two-way10
distributed-ledger-technology10
harmony10
consensus10
ethereum10
blockchain10
pooling9
benchmark9
pool9
aws9
staking9
frontier9
azure8
sdk8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
harmony-one/bls
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
LeoHChen/experiment-deploy
May 2019 - Mar 2023
Repo for conducting benchmark experiments
Contributions:95 pushes, 344 branches in 3 years 10 months
benchmarkbenchmarkingconductingbenchmark-experiments
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