Lawrence Xia
Senior Director Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Xia is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building data platforms and blockchain developer infrastructure, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Chainlink Labs after a multi-year tenure leading Riot Games’ centralized multi-game data warehouse. He blends hands-on backend and data engineering expertise—Airflow, Databricks, Python, SQL—with product-facing leadership that has launched non-EVM integrations like Solana and expanded Chainlink node support to new chains such as Harmony. Comfortable moving between R&D for smart contracts, data product ownership, and developer platform economics, Lawrence has a track record of establishing teams and shipping robust on-chain data feeds and monitoring. A self-taught coder and former startup co-founder with a biomedical engineering background, he brings an unusual mix of scientific rigor and pragmatic systems design to large-scale, production-critical engineering programs.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biomedical Engineer, Engineering Management (Minor), B.S., Biomedical Engineer, Engineering Management (Minor) at Tufts UniversityActon Boxborough Regional High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
evm10
configuration-management10
chainlink10
go10
virtual-machine10
blockchain10
backend9
back-end-development9
solidity9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Lawrence's contributions focused on integrating support for the Harmony blockchain within the Chainlink node. They primarily modified configuration files to include Harmony-specific parameters such as contract addresses, gas price defaults, and confirmation settings. The user also corrected syntax errors and updated configuration tests to include Harmony network profiles. This work involved adapting the existing system to support a new blockchain and its specific requirements.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
lawrencexia/personal_site
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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