Freddy Li
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Ava Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFreddy Li is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a decade of experience building blockchain and distributed systems, currently contributing to Gossamer at ChainSafe and working at Ava Labs. He specializes in Go and Rust, having moved from leading Substrate development on Sygma to implementing Polkadot node functionality in Gossamer. Freddy combines protocol-level insight from the Polkadot Blockchain Academy with a Master’s in Software Engineering from Waterloo, enabling pragmatic design of performant, secure backend services. His career spans startups and enterprise internships (including BlackBerry and Oracle China), giving him a rare mix of product-facing delivery and low-level systems expertise. Not obvious from his headline: he has hands-on experience across smart contracts, token systems and certificate/IP dApps from earlier blockchain projects, which informs his protocol engineering work today. Based in Old Toronto, he describes his ethos simply as “keep it real and do our thing,” reflecting a practical, collaborative approach to open-source and product development.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Protocol Track, Protocol Track at Polkadot Blockchain AcademyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Tianjin University of TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
evm10
linux10
cosmos10
ganache10
metadata10
tss10
finder10
desktop-application10
mpc10
ethereum10
blockchain10
golang10
macos10
application10
cosmos-sdk9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
freddyli7/MonkeySimulator
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 109 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
sprintertech/sygma-substrate-pallets
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 69 reviews, 35 commits in 4 months
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