Peter Chen
Software Engineer II at Ripple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Chen is a Software Engineer II with six years of hands-on experience building high-performance systems, currently working on the XRP Ledger at Ripple after graduating from the University of Toronto in 2024. He specializes in C++ and Go, shipping optimizations such as cache layers that cut DB reads by thousands per second and tools to manage terabytes of historical ledger data. His background includes chip-timing and cache-size improvements at Huawei, demonstrating a knack for low-level performance tuning as well as production-grade server work. At Ripple he’s led next-gen API efforts, improved config parsing and added security guards, showing an ability to own full subsystems from design to deployment. Outside of work he sharpens attention to detail through hobbies like cardistry and piano, which often inform his disciplined, craft-oriented approach to engineering.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at University of TorontoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Richmond Hill High School (Ontario)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
crypto10
cryptocurrency10
daemon10
xrp10
ledger10
api10
cpp10
cryptography10
blockchain10
ripple10
api-server9
consensus8
documentation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PeterChen13579/clio
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
An XRP Ledger API Server
Contributions:249 pushes, 66 branches in 1 year 8 months
PeterChen13579/rippled
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain daemon implementing the XRP Ledger protocol in C++
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
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