Bowen Wang
Chief Technology Officer at NEAR Protocol
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBowen Wang is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 10 years of experience building and running core blockchain infrastructure from San Francisco. Rising through engineering roles at NEAR Protocol, he advanced from software engineer to Head of Protocol and now leads technical strategy as CTO, combining hands-on systems work with product and team leadership. His open-source contributions to flagship NEAR projects—nearcore, near-sdk-rs, and near-api-js—reflect deep expertise in low-level consensus/state systems, Rust smart-contract tooling, and secure transaction handling. Bowen is notable for improving performance-sensitive components (chunk/block processing, gas and balance handling) and adding runtime APIs that directly enhance developer experience on NEAR. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and brings a rare mix of protocol-level engineering and operational leadership.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Chicago
Github Skills (12)
smart-contracts10
state-management10
javascript10
rust10
sdk10
rust-wasm10
system-programming10
wasm-pack10
blockchain10
nearprotocol10
cryptography9
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
near/nearcore
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 releases, 1912 reviews, 851 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bowen primarily contributed to the core functionality of the NEAR Protocol's reference client, specifically focusing on core and low-level systems. The user implemented features like a `ChunkTracker` class, and the addition of `Gas` and `Balance` and their proper handling throughout the code. Contributions included improving state management and optimization within the core logic, which improved the performance of block and chunk processing.
rustethereumblockchainnearprotocolwebassembly
near/near-api-js
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
JavaScript library to interact with NEAR Protocol via RPC API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 30 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Bowen primarily focused on improving the `near-api-js` library, specifically by adding and refining features related to transaction handling and blockchain interaction. Their contributions included adding receipt block functionalities, addressing security issues, and implementing transaction replay protection. They also refactored code, fixed tests, and resolved merge conflicts to ensure the library's stability and maintainability.
apijavascript-libraryrpcethereumrpc-api
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