Albert Chon
Co-founder, CTO at Tendermint
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlbert Chon is a founder and CTO with nine years of experience building decentralized exchange infrastructure from Palo Alto, combining deep systems training from Stanford with hands-on engineering across startups and open-source blockchain projects. As co-founder of Injective Labs and a Tendermint Fellow, he architects production-grade cross-chain systems and contributed correctness and tooling improvements to the widely used gravity-bridge Cosmos project. He brings full-stack systems thinking—protocol design, smart-contract correctness, and backend tooling—tempered by early industry experience at Amazon and OpenZeppelin. Beyond engineering, he pursues diverse intellectual interests from ML and cybersecurity to longevity and photography, which inform a broad, systems-oriented approach to product and risk.
9 years of coding experience
Summer Academy in Applied Science & Technology Biotechnology, Summer Academy in Applied Science & Technology Biotechnology at University of PennsylvaniaValedictorian, Valedictorian at Gretchen Whitney High SchoolSupplemental Courses Taken During High School, Supplemental Courses Taken During High School at Cerritos CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science - Specialization in Systems, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Specialization in Systems at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Korean
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Github Skills (6)
evm10
cosmos-sdk10
smart-contracts10
go10
solidity10
blockchain10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/gravity-bridge
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
A CosmosSDK application for moving assets on and off of EVM based, POW chains
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 6 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and correctness of the Peggy smart contract and related CLI tools. They optimized token transfers within the smart contract, implemented commands for setting orchestrator addresses and sending tokens to Ethereum, and corrected off-by-one errors in the codebase. The user's work contributed directly to improving the bridge's operational capabilities and fixing identified issues.
ethereumblockchainevmchainspow
InjectiveLabs/cosmos-sdk
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 19 PRs in 3 years 3 months
blockchainchainsblockchain-networksparklesblockchains
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