Dennis Won
Head Of Protocol at Magic Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Won is a Head of Protocol and seasoned systems engineer with a decade of experience designing high-assurance blockchain infrastructure, from Solidity contracts to Rust-based provers and EVM/WASM runtime internals. He leads Newton Protocol architecture at Magic Labs, shipping production-grade payment rails, policy engines, and chain-abstraction layers that prioritize deterministic execution, fault isolation, and institutional-grade reliability. His background includes founding L2 Iterative Ventures, core-protocol work on Harmony (contributing transaction-throttling and network-level safeguards), and building ERC-4337 tooling at Alchemy to accelerate smart-account adoption. Dennis blends deep distributed-systems and cryptography expertise—MPC, threshold sigs, TEEs, zk/IR pipelines—with pragmatic operational rigor to translate complex requirements into deployable systems. He’s equally comfortable in low-level runtime engineering and high-level policy design, often surfacing human-readable policy previews and verifiable proofs for wallet/dApp UX. Based in San Francisco, he pairs academic roots from Stanford with cross-domain experience spanning payments, media infrastructure, and privacy-preserving compute.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Langley High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Korean, English
Github Skills (7)
distributed-ledger10
consensus10
go10
blockchain10
distributed-ledger-technology10
sharding9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
harmony-one/harmony
Aug 2019 - May 2020
The core protocol of harmony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 commits, 78 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dennis's commits focus on implementing transaction throttling and related configuration within the Harmony protocol. The changes introduce configuration options at the per-network level (mainnet, testnet, localnet) to limit transaction amounts, account transaction frequency, and block transaction limits. The commits modify the worker component to apply these throttling rules, including handling transaction messages and integrating the new configurations, thus optimizing the blockchain's performance. These changes improve the blockchain performance and prevent potential abuse.
consensusproof-of-stakeethereumblockchainsharding
harmony-one/bnbridge.exchange
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Token swap from BEP2 to ERC20 for Harmony.One (ONE)
Contributions:61 PRs, 51 pushes, 23 comments in 2 months
token-swapharmony-oneswapethereumtoken
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