Po Chen
Technical Advisor at Cypherpunks Taiwan
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolPo Chen is a technical advisor and founder with deep, hands-on expertise in Bitcoin and TON blockchain systems, active in the space since 2013. He has combined academic rigor—authoring 10 papers on topics from firewall circumvention to transaction monitoring—with practical engineering contributions to multisig, Lightning Network, and early TON tooling (including maintaining TON node/validator build systems and Apple M1 support). As a strategic partner for the TON Foundation and co-founder of TONX Studio and Cypherpunks Taiwan, he designs validator, staking and pool infrastructure and has supported CBDC and exchange-grade blockchain projects. Based in New Taipei, he blends research, operations and community leadership—running meetups, large Mandarin Bitcoin communities, and technical training—so he moves effortlessly between whitepapers and production-grade deployments.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering at 銘傳大學Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Software Engineering at 北京大學Ph.D. drop out, ENGINEERING, Ph.D. drop out, ENGINEERING at 國立臺灣大學
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (14)
system-administration10
system10
administrator10
bash10
administration10
script10
cmake10
sys10
admin10
build-automation10
ninja9
blockchain7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ton-blockchain/mytonctrl
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
A tool to run and maintain a TON node/validator
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Po's contributions primarily involve setting up and maintaining the build and installation process for the TON node/validator software. The user addressed platform-specific dependencies (macOS, Linux) and made changes to support Apple M1 architecture. The user also switched the build system from Make to Ninja and removed unnecessary compilation steps related to a miner, streamlining the build process.
ton-nodetonblockchainvalidator
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