Norton Wang
CTO at Cogito Protocol
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNorton Wang is a CTO and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building blockchain and web infrastructure from OTC Bitcoin trading platforms to on-chain protocol work in New York. He has hands-on expertise across the stack—improving developer tooling at DFINITY, squeezing complex data into compact on-chain representations at Axoni, and enhancing front-end UX for DeFi in Beefy Finance. Known for pragmatic engineering, he has improved build and debugging workflows (notably adding source-map support in Motoko tooling) and focuses on measurable UX and reliability gains. Comfortable learning new languages and paradigms quickly (picked up Haskell in days), he combines product-minded leadership with deep technical contributions to open-source projects. Currently leading engineering at Cogito Protocol, he pairs startup grit with a Cornell CS background to ship auditable, production-ready blockchain systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Cornell University
Chinese
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
material-ui10
motoko10
nix10
react10
build-automation10
yield9
programming-language9
typescripts8
typescript8
testing8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/motoko
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Simple high-level language for writing Internet Computer canisters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:47 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 10 months
Contributions summary:Norton's contributions primarily centered around enhancing the build and testing infrastructure. They introduced flags for source maps and prelude within the build process, and updated the Nix configuration with new dependencies, specifically related to source map generation and build optimizations. They also made changes to the JavaScript compilation, adding support for source maps and improved integration, along with updates to test files. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving build processes, debugging capabilities, and potentially code maintainability by including source map functionality.
high-levellanguage-leveldfinityinternethigh-level-language
beefyfinance/beefy-app
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Multichain yield optimizer
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Norton primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the "beefy-app" repository, a multichain yield optimizer. Their contributions included the addition of loading indicators to various components, specifically for TVL (Total Value Locked), balance, deposited amounts, APY, and TVL, ensuring a better user experience during data fetching. Furthermore, the user addressed the display of values by integrating and utilizing formatting functions. This work directly improved the visual feedback and responsiveness of the application.
blockchainmultichainoptimizeryield-farmingdefi
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