Kai Chen
Head Of Ecosystem at Mode Network
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolKai Chen is a seasoned blockchain and ecosystem leader with 18 years of experience combining product, BD, and hands-on engineering across crypto, finance, and enterprise. Currently Head of Ecosystem at Mode Network, he led DeFAI launches and onboarding that drove hundreds of millions in TVL, after steering BNBChain DeFi strategy and derivatives ecosystem development at Binance. He founded and scaled multiple startups—building DeFi protocols, mobile DEX wallets, and supply-chain blockchain apps—while earlier roles at McKinsey and major financial firms honed his rigor in strategy and risk frameworks. An active contributor to open-source front-end media tooling, he’s comfortable shipping UI-focused code as well as architecting cross-functional ecosystem programs. Fluent across Hong Kong and global markets, he uniquely blends macro market insight, tokenomics research, and developer-first go-to-market execution.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Magna Cum Laude at Yale University Class of 2014Spanish Language and Culture Program, Spanish Language and Culture Program at University of Deusto
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
html10
javascript10
html5-video10
front-end-development10
video-player10
css9
git6
erc206
solidity6
ethereum6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mediaelement/mediaelement
Jun 2011 - Jun 2011
HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with support for MP4, WebM, and MP3 as well as HLS, Dash, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and others with a common HTML5 MediaElement API, enabling a consistent UI in all browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the media player. Their commits focused on implementing and refining options and features related to the player's controls and captions, notably the "alwaysShowControls" option. The changes involved modifications to both the main player file and the mediaelementplayer.min.js file. These changes appear to enhance the overall user experience by providing control over how controls are displayed.
mp3youtubevideo-playerhtml5video
consenlabs/tokenlon-mmsk
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
Tokenlon Market Maker Service Kit
Contributions:9 releases, 21 reviews, 95 commits in 1 year
makermarket-makerblockchainimtokendex
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