Lawrence Xia
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Xia is a seasoned software engineering leader with 10 years of experience building data platforms and blockchain infrastructure across Riot Games and Chainlink Labs in Los Angeles. He led teams that built Riot’s centralized multi-game data warehouse using Airflow, Databricks and AWS, and now serves as Senior Director of Engineering at Chainlink Labs driving developer platform, economics and cross-chain integrations. He helped establish Chainlink’s Data Feeds team, led early non-EVM work like Solana integrations, and contributes to the Chainlink open-source node by adding Harmony network support. Trained as a biomedical engineer and early-career researcher, he pivoted into software through self-taught engineering work and a string of hands-on roles from tooling to platform ops. He’s known for shipping pragmatic tooling for on-chain deployment and observability, blending startup grit with enterprise-scale reliability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biomedical Engineer, Engineering Management (Minor), B.S., Biomedical Engineer, Engineering Management (Minor) at Tufts UniversityActon Boxborough Regional High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
virtualmachine10
evm10
configuration-management10
chainlink10
go10
blockchain10
backend9
back-end-development9
back-end9
solidity9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Lawrence's contributions focused on integrating support for the Harmony blockchain within the Chainlink node. They primarily modified configuration files to include Harmony-specific parameters such as contract addresses, gas price defaults, and confirmation settings. The user also corrected syntax errors and updated configuration tests to include Harmony network profiles. This work involved adapting the existing system to support a new blockchain and its specific requirements.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
lawrencexia/personal_site
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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