Ken Liao
Founder & CEO at Xverse
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Liao is a founder and full-stack technologist with 11 years of experience building products and companies at the intersection of consumer marketplaces and crypto-enabled identity. As CEO of Xverse and former Co-Founder/CTO of prapo.com/Modastic Groupe, he leads product, infrastructure and engineering while rapidly turning ideas into production-ready systems. His engineering pedigree includes treasury and trading systems at major banks and hands-on open-source contributions to stacks.js—adding social account verification and Bitcoin-address proofing features for the Stacks blockchain. Based in Canada with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, he pairs quantitative finance experience with practical product instincts and an uncommon knack for shipping verifiable identity and blockchain integrations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
backend10
blockstack10
back-end-development10
blockchain10
bitcoins9
bitcoin9
clarity8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hirosystems/stacks.js
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
JavaScript libraries for identity, auth, storage and transactions on the Stacks blockchain.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 479 commits, 110 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ken implemented address-based social account verification, checking meta tags and specific HTML tags. These changes are related to core functionality for verifying users and their social accounts on the Stacks blockchain. Additional changes included fixing a case-sensitive proof URL check bug and updating browser tests for bitcoin address based proofs. The user also refactored profile proofs code and added support for Instagram and Hacker News account verification.
stacks-blockchainblockstackjavascriptblockchainstacks
stacks-network/updates.blockstack.org
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
Update server for the Blockstack macOS app
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 year 6 months
blockstackmacos-appupdateupdate-servermacos
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