Guanqun Lu
Senior Software Engineer at Akuna Capital
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolGuanqun Lu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Shanghai with 11 years of professional experience building robust backend systems at firms like Akuna Capital and Intel. He holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science from Fudan University and has a strong focus on performance, reliability, and low-level implementation details. As an active contributor to the popular ethers-rs Rust library, he has improved core provider modules and websocket transport robustness for Ethereum and Celo integrations, demonstrating expertise in blockchain client internals. At Akuna he applies this systems-level thinking to financial trading infrastructure, blending production-grade engineering with careful error handling and refactoring. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers clean, constant-time primitives and thoughtful refactors over quick fixes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Fudan University
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Github Skills (11)
websocket10
rust10
websockets-client10
websocket-client10
web3js10
ethereum10
client-websocket10
elo9
error-handling8
fonts6
emacs6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gakonst/ethers-rs
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust. https://docs.rs/ethers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Guanqun contributed primarily to the core functionality of the `ethers-rs` library. They focused on implementing and refining features within the core and provider modules, including making `I256::from_raw()` a constant, and refactoring the websocket transport. The user also addressed typos and improved the error handling within the websocket provider. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's robustness and performance for interacting with Ethereum and Celo networks.
ethereumrustblockchainceloweb3
guanqun/substrate
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Polkadot Node Implementation
Contributions:56 pushes, 74 branches in 11 months
substrateparitypolkadotblockchain
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