Kevin Ho
Co-Founder at OP Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Ho is a Co-Founder at OP Labs and a core contributor to the Optimism Collective with 11 years of software engineering experience focused on scaling Ethereum through layer-2 solutions. He blends back-end development, Solidity smart contract work, and DevOps—shiping safety checks for the Optimism Virtual Machine and adapting major projects like Synthetix to run on OVM. A former lead developer of the open-source Cryptoeconomics.study course, he pairs hands-on protocol engineering with a talent for tooling and deployment automation that simplifies L1/L2 interoperability. Based in New York and trained in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania, he brings startup grit and deep blockchain protocol expertise to make Web3 apps feel as usable as Web2.
11 years of coding experience
B.S.E. Computer Science: Digital Media Design, B.S.E. Computer Science: Digital Media Design at University of PennsylvaniaHarvard-Westlake School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
autoscaling10
solidity10
optim10
ovf10
scaling10
ovirt10
scale10
rollupjs10
ethereum10
blockchain10
ovp10
opt10
python9
devops9
uri-builder8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-optimism/optimism
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Optimism is Ethereum, scaled.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 reviews, 32 commits, 140 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Optimism layer-2 scaling solution. They implemented and updated a safety checker for bytecode, ensuring code execution safety within the Optimism Virtual Machine (OVM). Their work included the creation of a solidity contract and a python script for generating constants, demonstrating a focus on Solidity and scripting for this project. They also added features, such as xdomainmessenger interface, for interoperability between L1 and L2.
rollupl2-scalingovmethereumblockchain
Synthetixio/synthetix
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Synthetix Solidity smart contracts
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 27 commits, 17 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to integrating and testing the Synthetix project with the Optimism Virtual Machine (OVM). This involved modifying build scripts and deployment configurations to support the OVM compiler and execution environment. They also worked on adapting testing frameworks to run contracts on the OVM, as well as modifying gas limits for OVM deployments. Furthermore, the user also set up local OVM deployments and deployment scripts to connect to different L1 and L2 networks for local testing.
synthetixethereumblockchainsoliditysmart-contracts
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