Gloria Zhao
Human Resource Specialist at Thoth AI
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolGloria Zhao is a Human Resource Specialist based in Beijing with 8 years of cross-functional experience spanning global HR, commercial management, and technical recruiting. She currently leads HR and commercial operations at Thoth AI, after recruiting for technical roles at Meituan and supporting post-investment talent mapping at Lighthouse Capital. Unusually for an HR professional, Gloria has hands-on backend testing and QA contributions to high-profile open-source cryptocurrency projects (Bitcoin Core, Peercoin, Bitcoin ABC), giving her a rare blend of talent acquisition insight and technical literacy around blockchain transaction validation and mempool logic. Fluent in French and trained in network and new media, she leverages strong communication skills to bridge technical teams and business stakeholders. Known for pragmatic hiring strategies and a deep curiosity about low-level system behaviors, she helps organizations hire for hard-to-fill engineering roles with informed technical judgment.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, French Language and Literature& Network and New Media, Bachelor of Arts - BA, French Language and Literature& Network and New Media at 中国传媒大学Communication University of China (CUC)
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
bitcoin-abc10
c-language10
ropc10
testing10
drpc10
bitcoin10
test-framework10
bitcoins10
validation10
pool10
cryptocurrency10
validating10
rpc10
procedures10
mpo10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Tester
Back-end Developer & TesterContributions:2 releases, 2377 reviews, 245 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gloria's contributions primarily involve testing the logic and behaviour of a Bitcoin Core implementation. They performed checks related to orphaned transactions, validating child and parent transactions, and also for different scenarios. These tests involved crafting new transactions and verifying their acceptance and rejection according to mempool rules. Further, the user tested for various types of invalid inputs and transaction validation failures.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
peercoin/peercoin
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Reference implementation of the Peercoin protocol.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:154 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Gloria contributed significantly to the codebase, making changes to RPC functionalities by altering core components and adding functionality to mempool entries. They implemented and tested functionalities for package validation and segwit functionality. Their focus was on modifying and testing low-level APIs, introducing more robust and precise methods for verifying transaction logic, particularly in the context of package validation.
proof-of-stakeblockchaindecentralizedminablecryptocurrency
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