Peng Wang
Software Engineer And Tech Lead at Ripple
United States
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Top SchoolPeng Wang is a software engineer and tech lead with six years of experience specializing in high-performance distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure. Currently at Ripple, he leads development of an EVM sidechain and its bridge, and previously implemented core consensus enhancements for the XRP Ledger such as negative UNL and forward ledger replay. His background includes architecting consensus and bootstrapping protocols, BLS aggregate signatures, and P2P oversight from his time at Logos Network, plus low-latency RDMA network engines for enterprise storage at StorONE. An active contributor to the well-known rippled C++ implementation of the XRP Ledger, he has strengthened RPC versioning, validations, and network liveness in a major open-source cryptocurrency daemon. He pairs PhD-level rigor with hands-on systems optimization, often improving throughput and robustness by rethinking protocols and data formats. Colleagues rely on him to turn deep research into production-ready, scalable consensus and networking systems.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.89, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.89 at University of Minnesota
Chinese
Github Skills (10)
rpc10
c-language10
ledger10
api10
xrp10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
cpp9
cryptography8
boost8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/rippled
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
Decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain daemon implementing the XRP Ledger protocol in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:171 reviews, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Peng contributed to the `rippled` project, a C++ implementation of the XRP Ledger. Their work focused on enhancing the RPC API, specifically adding support for API versioning in test cases. They also implemented functionality for negative UNL (Unvalidated Node Lists), which improves network liveness. Furthermore, the user added functionality related to ledger forward replay and improved code related to validations, including adding a higher bound to validations to keep, enhancing the robustness and functionality of the ledger.
cryptographycppxrpldaemonblockchain
pwang200/rippled
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain daemon implementing the XRP Ledger in C++
Contributions:6 PRs, 167 pushes, 35 branches in 5 years 5 months
cppdaemonblockchainxrp-ledgerdecentralized
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