Adrian Li
Asia EcoDev Lead at Self-Employed
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Li is an ecosystem development leader and software engineer with a decade of experience, currently driving developer and ecosystem initiatives for the Ethereum Foundation from Tokyo. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering—contributing to core open-source tooling like Truffle Suite projects (Drizzle, Ganache UI) and adding privacy-conscious web3 support such as EIP-1102—with business development, product leadership and developer relations. As a founder of the Ethereum Vancouver meetup and co‑founder of DFX Finance, he pairs startup grit with enterprise consulting experience across ConsenSys and YC/Techstars-backed teams. He uniquely combines technical depth with local GTM know‑how for expanding into Asia, and his extracurriculars (he once guided hiking tours in Hong Kong) reflect a knack for community-building both on‑ and off‑chain.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor, Law, Juris Doctor, Law at The University of British ColumbiaBASc, Mechanical Engineering, BASc, Mechanical Engineering at University of TorontoDr Norman Bethune
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (55)
contracts10
javascript10
typescript310
solidity10
draft-js-plugins10
electron10
hashtag10
typescript10
typescript210
redux10
web3-js10
draft-js10
javascripts10
f10
web3js10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
truffle-box/react-box
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Truffle, Webpack and React boilerplate.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 23 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to integrating a React frontend with a Truffle-based Ethereum smart contract backend. Their work involved adding create-react-app boilerplate, setting up web3 interaction, and deploying a simple storage contract. They refactored the code to use the web3 API instead of truffle-contract and updated the frontend client and Solidity contract versions.
reactreact-boilerplateboilerplatedappethereum
studydefi/money-legos
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
💰One stop shop for Ethereum ABIs, addresses, and Solidity interfaces!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 143 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Adrian's contributions center on establishing the foundational structure for an Ethereum-focused project, including the creation of core modules, and defining the network configurations. The user implemented smart contract ABIs, addresses, and interfaces for various DeFi protocols like Compound, Maker, and ERC20 tokens, which enables access to the necessary data for interactions. Moreover, the user wrote tests to validate the proper address replacement based on network ID.
abisethereumstopblockchainmoney-legos
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