Charles Lu
Co-Founder at Espresso Systems
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Lu is a Stanford-trained cryptographer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building blockchain protocols and startups. As co-founder of Espresso Systems and a former Binance Labs contributor, he blends deep academic research from a PhD program with hands-on product and protocol design. He founded the Stanford Blockchain Club and is currently on leave from his PhD to focus full-time on scaling Eian, demonstrating a preference for turning theoretical work into real-world systems. Charles is comfortable operating at the intersection of cryptography, distributed systems, and startup execution, bringing both rigorous research instincts and operator grit to the teams he leads.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (96)
trading10
cryptocurrency10
p2p10
crypto10
cryptocurrencies10
exchange10
api10
cryptanalysis10
bitcoin10
twitter-api10
hash-algorithm10
go10
trust10
binance10
ethereum10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
eliwu26/DeepWhat
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 50 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
clu8/RainbowTable
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 4 pushes in 8 months
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