Nicholas Chen
Product & Strategy
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolNicholas Chen is a product and strategy leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling blockchain infrastructure and consumer products from Singapore. As CEO and Rust engineer at SolanaFM he architected the original backend, built a high-throughput indexer and query engine that handled 400 blocks/sec and 100TB of queryable data, and scaled the product to 500k monthly active users while raising $5.2M. He combines hands-on systems engineering (Rust, datacenter buildouts) with product vision, having co-founded multiple crypto startups and contributed across Solana, Polkadot, and Ethereum ecosystems. Now at Jupiter he focuses on product strategy for web3 primitives, bringing operator-level infrastructure experience and a history of growing engineering teams to 20+. An early kernel developer and longtime educator, he pairs low-level technical chops with a talent for cultivating culture and shipping at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to Data Science, Introduction to Data Science at edXBachelor of Science - BS Information Systems (Fintech), Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems (Fintech) at Singapore Management UniversityHigh School General Certificate of Education N Levels, High School General Certificate of Education N Levels at Nan Chiau High SchoolPrimary School Leaving Examination General, Primary School Leaving Examination General at Holy Innocents' Primary SchoolDiploma Information Technology, Diploma Information Technology at Singapore Polytechnic
Malay, Korean, Chinese, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (200)
dotnet10
ledger10
bitcoin10
solana10
sta10
csharp10
bitcoinlib10
ethereum10
blockchain10
javascript9
linux9
scale9
scalable9
rust9
html9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nixxholas/nautilus
Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
solana-fm/spi-wrapper
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:223 commits, 44 pushes, 16 branches in 5 months
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