Derek Chiang
Manager Of Some Sort at Offchain Labs
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Chiang is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building distributed systems and Web3 products from the protocol layer to user-facing UX. He founded ZeroDev (YC W23), led its smart account solution through acquisition by Offchain Labs, and now manages ZeroDev and a confidential project within OCL focused on full-stack Web3 for startups and enterprises. Derek’s background spans infrastructure, p2p networking, and backend engineering — notable contributions include network tomography and coordinate systems for HashiCorp’s Consul/Serf and memberlist, plus Rust work on cross-platform coreutils. He combines hands-on engineering with product and ecosystem strategy, having started and sold blockchain labs, co-founded creator monetization tools, and worked at startups like Pachyderm and DFINITY. Based in Los Angeles, he’s as comfortable iterating on low-level networking code as shaping developer-facing Web3 UX, and often blends protocol-level insight into product decisions. An early competitive programmer and persistent open-source contributor, he brings both systems rigor and entrepreneurial drive to tricky scalability and UX problems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Longcheng Middle SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Shenzhen Middle School
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
service-mesh10
key-value-store10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
clientside10
testing10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
networking10
consul10
go10
api10
front-end-development10
command-line-tool10
rust10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/go-etcd
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
DEPRECATED - please use the official client at https://github.com/coreos/etcd/tree/master/client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Derek contributed to the etcd Go client library, focusing on improving its functionality and fixing bugs. They added support for options in GET requests, improving the flexibility of the API. They also addressed bug fixes related to client functionalities and conducted merge operations. The user demonstrated proficiency in modifying client-side logic and API enhancements within the etcd project.
etcdcoreosjavascriptmasternodejs
hashicorp/serf
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Service orchestration and management tool.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek contributed to the Vivaldi coordinate system within the Serf project. Their work involved modifying the coordinate system implementation by adding functionality like cloning, and updating error handling. They also exposed an API to access the coordinate, and integrated the coordinate system into Serf's ping mechanism, including a version number in pings, and caching coordinates. These changes enhanced Serf's ability to estimate network distances between nodes.
golangmanagement-toolorchestration
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