Chris Li
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Li is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with five years of industry experience who currently serves as CEO of a stealth startup in Menlo Park. Previously a founding engineer at Mysten Labs, he led Product Infrastructure & Ecosystem efforts for the Sui blockchain—shipping the Explorer, Wallet, RPC, Indexer, and SDKs—and made hands-on contributions to the Move-based Sui core, improving collection management and core types. He cut his teeth in crypto roles at Robinhood and in large-scale ads and social systems at Facebook, giving him a rare blend of consumer product, infrastructure, and blockchain protocol experience. Comfortable moving between product strategy and low-level code, he pairs technical depth in systems and smart contracts with startup execution instincts. He holds a CS master’s from Georgia Tech and a CS bachelor’s from Rice, and often surfaces protocol-level improvements rather than only surface APIs.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Rice University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
smart-contracts10
move10
blockchain10
distributed-ledger-technology9
rust9
distributed-ledger9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MystenLabs/sui
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1244 reviews, 282 commits, 646 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the development of the Sui smart contract platform, focusing on the Move programming language. They implemented features for managing collections, including adding and removing objects, and setting capacity limits. The user also refactored core types and modules, such as changing the type of IDs and renaming the ID type, along with adjusting examples and verifier tests to reflect the changes. These changes involved modifying Move code within the framework and associated Rust code, improving the structure and functionality of the core components.
ethereumcontractsmart-contract-platformprogramming-languagesui
666lcz/sui-sdk-test-scripts
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
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