Kenta Iwasaki
Founding Engineer at Superpower
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolKenta Iwasaki is a founding engineer and serial technical entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, blockchain protocols, and AI-driven products from research to production. He has led teams and shipped core infrastructure—Wavelet, Rheia, and multiple p2p stacks and VMs—while raising substantial funding and integrating solutions for enterprise partners like Hitachi and Trafigura. Equally at home in low-level systems (Zig, Go, Rust, io_uring, lock-free data structures) and applied ML (CLIP, YOLO, Whisper), he bridges theoretical research in cryptography, signal processing, and ML with pragmatic engineering at scale. His open-source contributions include perlin-network/noise and life, and libraries that power Solana and decentralized services, reflecting a deep commitment to performant, auditable code. Notably, his early hacker-to-founder trajectory produced ultra-low-latency trading engines and consensus protocols capable of hundreds of thousands of tx/sec, demonstrating rare expertise across wallets, VMs, and hardware-accelerated graphics. Based in Hong Kong, he combines a theorist’s rigor with operator-level execution to turn cutting-edge research into resilient, production systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CUPP Go-To-Market Bootcamp, CUPP Go-To-Market Bootcamp at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessDelia School of CanadaHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (28)
numerical10
computation10
datatypes10
bitwise10
virtual-machine10
networking10
numerics10
go10
bit10
webassembly10
numeric10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
p2p10
float329
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
perlin-network/noise
Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
A decentralized P2P networking stack written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 486 commits, 114 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kenta focused on developing a decentralized P2P networking stack in Go. Their contributions include creating an actor registry with unique names and message mailboxes, similar to Erlang actors. They also introduced a "nonce" field to the ID message, and added a key-value storage system. Additionally, the user added new API calls for message handling.
golangp2pnetworkingdecentralizedpeer-to-peer
perlin-network/life
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
A secure WebAssembly VM catered for decentralized applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kenta primarily focused on implementing core numerical operations and data types within the WebAssembly Virtual Machine. They added support for i32, i64, f32, and f64 data types and implemented various arithmetic and bitwise operations such as add, sub, mul, div, rem, and bitwise shifts and logic operations. Furthermore, the user implemented various utility functions and features related to number handling, including load/store operations and conversion methods. They also added functionality for managing and executing global variables.
securerustblockchainwebassemblydecentralized
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