Eddy Lee
Co-Founder at GFX Labs
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEddy Lee is a co-founder and backend-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure from the Greater Chicago Area. He leads GFX Labs and previously combined trading and development at Grapefruit Trading, bringing practical experience in crypto market making, lending, and OTC workflows. His open-source contributions include implementing Altair light client sync, SSZ code generation, and gossip subscriptions in Erigon’s Ethereum implementation, evidencing deep protocol-level expertise. He also enhanced backend storage integrations for SeaweedFS, adding ArangoDB support and cloud storage plumbing for large-scale blob and object workloads. Comfortable at the intersection of trading, systems engineering, and startups, he prioritizes shipping robust backend features that scale. He prefers recruitment contact via careers@gfxlabs.io and does not regularly monitor other inboxes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA/MS Psychology/CS, BA/MS Psychology/CS at Northwestern UniversityLatin School of Chicago
Github Skills (20)
ss10
serializer10
distributed-systems10
serialization10
arangodb10
data-storage10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
admin9
database-administration9
databases9
database9
distributed-file-system9
object-storage8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
erigontech/erigon
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier https://docs.erigon.tech
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 10 commits, 73 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eddy's contributions primarily focused on implementing and refining the light client functionality within the Ethereum implementation. This involved the creation of code for packet decoding and SSZ code generation. The user also added subscription to gossip and included handlers with logs and implemented stream timeouts. Their work appears to be centered around the Altair light client synchronization protocol, indicating expertise in blockchain-related backend development and the specific Ethereum protocol.
ethereumsolidityfrontierblockchain
seaweedfs/seaweedfs
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 days
Contributions summary:Eddy primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the SeaweedFS project, focusing on the ArangoDB integration. They implemented and updated the ArangoDB storage backend, including functionalities for inserting, updating, finding, and deleting entries, along with directory listing capabilities. Their changes included modifying the `go.mod` file to include dependencies and updates related to cloud storage integrations. They also refactored the ArangoDB connection details by changing username/password variables.
kubernetes-replicationfuseerasure-codingfile-storagedata-storage
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