Luke Fan
Co-Founder at Polkadot
San Francisco, California, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Fan is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, decentralized storage, and automated machine learning platforms. After leading the Glaucus AutoML system as a researcher at Zhejiang University and turning down a Georgia Tech Ph.D. offer, he applied that research at Microsoft Azure before co-founding Crust Network to create the largest decentralized storage network in the Polkadot ecosystem. As CTO of Crust and now CEO/Co-Founder at MagnetAI, he focuses on scalable cloud-native architectures and pioneering ModelFi protocols to democratize AI. He remains active in the Polkadot developer community, contributing full-stack integrations to the widely used polkadot-js/apps UI to bring Crust and IPFS into real-world workflows. Based in San Francisco with ties to Singapore, he blends deep academic rigor with pragmatic product-building and a persistent entrepreneurial drive. An understated strength is his pattern of translating complex research prototypes into production-grade, open ecosystems that attract developer and investor support.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
substrate10
ui-design10
uid10
polkadot-js10
front-end-development10
blockchain10
polkadot10
javascript9
react9
ipfs8
web3js8
typescript7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
cicd5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
polkadot-js/apps
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on integrating Crust Network functionality within the Polkadot/Substrate UI application. Their contributions involved adding Crust Network logos, endpoints, and UI elements, reflecting a focus on integrating the Crust blockchain. The user also addressed bugs, performed UI fixes, and contributed to the deployment process, particularly related to IPFS integration for the application. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of the Polkadot ecosystem and integrating with different blockchain networks.
substrateblockchainwalletchainssubstrate-node
crustio/ipfsscan
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:13 reviews, 18 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
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