Alex Chien - Co-Founder at Itering Tech

Alex Chien

Co-Founder at Itering Tech

Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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Alex Chien is a blockchain technology expert and full-stack developer with 17 years in the internet industry, and a proven track record founding and scaling core blockchain infrastructure. As Co-Founder of Darwinia Network and Itering Tech, he leads development of Substrate-based cross-chain bridges and an asset interconnection hub powering DeFi, gaming, and NFT migrations. Active in crypto since Bitcoin’s early days and a contributor to open-source projects like bitcoin-ruby, he focuses on backend data robustness, caching, and transaction analytics. He balances technical depth with business development acumen cultivated at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and roles advising industry and government on blockchain strategy. A less obvious strength: he combines hands-on protocol engineering with practical productization—turning low-level cryptoeconomic primitives into usable cross-chain services.

16 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Github Skills (8)

bitcoin10

bitcoins10

back-end-development10

ruby10

data-modeling9

database-api8

databases8

database8

Programming languages (13)

C#C++CSSRustMakefileVueGoTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

lian/bitcoin-ruby

Dec 2013 - Jan 2014

bitcoin utils and protocol in ruby.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:5 commits in 2 days

Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Bitcoin Ruby library. Their commits involved enhancing the storage and data models by adding caching mechanisms and exposing data like block and transaction sizes. They also implemented a method to retrieve the total received amount for a given Bitcoin address, and introduced methods to calculate total input/output values and fees. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the core data handling and analysis capabilities of the library.

utilsrubybitcoin

AlexChien/graphene-ui

Jun 2015 - Jun 2017

Contributions:73 pushes, 37 branches in 2 years

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