Will Chen
Co-Founder CEO at Idyllic Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Chen is a founder and CEO in San Francisco with 11 years of experience working at the intersection of language, intelligence, and computation. Trained in applied mathematics at UC Berkeley, he’s built compilers, debuggers and VMs for blockchain platforms—leading work on CWScript, CWSimulate and a browser-instrumented CosmWasm runtime at Terran One. He approaches UI/UX and developer experience through a language-design and symbolic-systems lens, and has hands-on open-source contributions to Terra’s docs and the terra.js SDK. After a decade in Web3 and developer relations, he now leads Idyllic Labs to build a creator-economy platform for AI tools, combining low-level systems craft with product and community-driven developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyArcadia High School
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
typescript310
documentations10
typescript10
typescript210
javascripts10
vue-js10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
vue-jsx10
documentation10
markdown9
web3-js9
blockchain9
markdown-it9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
terra-money/terra.js
Apr 2020 - May 2021
JavaScript SDK for Terra, written in TypeScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 138 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the `terra.js` JavaScript SDK. Their contributions involved refactoring the documentation directory, adding the project's logo to the documentation, and implementing detailed descriptions on how to load and use the SDK in the browser. Additionally, the user added new wasm messages and associated LCD endpoints, and also incorporated address validation features.
javascriptsdkterratypescriptjavascript-sdk
terra-money/docs
May 2020 - Aug 2021
🗂 The official documentation for the Terra blockchain
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 136 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on updating and reorganizing the documentation for the Terra blockchain. Their contributions included changes to the configuration files, specifically involving the navigation and sidebar structure, and updates to footer links. They also made changes to the documentation's overall structure, adding new sections and reorganizing existing ones.
terra-blockchainblockchainterra
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