Larry Salibra
Founder at New Internet Labs Limited
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Salibra is a founder and seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and customer-facing platforms from Hong Kong. Currently leading New Internet Labs, he focuses on defending users' digital rights and has deep hands-on experience across the full stack—from blockchain back-end fixes in the Stacks core to front-end UX work on the Blockstack Browser. He has founded and scaled multiple ventures, including Pay4Bugs, a crowdsourced testing marketplace with thousands of testers, and led engineering and product at consultancies serving major US brokers and government clients. An active open-source contributor, Larry has implemented authentication, proof validation, and service normalization in the widely used Stacks.js ecosystem and resolved core blockchain issues in stacks-core. He combines practical product instincts with international engineering management—having hired and run Mandarin-speaking teams in Guangzhou—making him effective at bridging technical, cultural, and business requirements.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Wesleyan UniversityHarbin Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
python10
api-design10
testing10
decentralization10
user-authentication10
bitcoin10
authentication10
distributed-systems10
bitcoins10
blockstack10
front-end-development10
blockchain10
react10
user-interface9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hirosystems/stacks.js
Nov 2015 - Jun 2019
JavaScript libraries for identity, auth, storage and transactions on the Stacks blockchain.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:471 commits, 111 PRs, 312 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Larry implemented sample proofs and tests for the Stacks.js library, including unit tests for proofs and services. They added code to check for proof statements and implemented methods to normalize and validate URLs for various services, such as Facebook, Twitter, and GitHub. Furthermore, the user introduced an async architecture with service and test implementations. The user made changes to handle different services and verify authentication requests.
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stacks-archive/blockstack-browser
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
The Blockstack Browser
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 1145 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Larry made several contributions to the Blockstack Browser repository, primarily focusing on front-end development and user experience. They implemented UI changes by modifying various components such as `AuthModal.js` and `ProfileCompletion.js`. They also worked on core functionalities like name registration, payment flows, and subdomain support.
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