Qizheng Mao
Engineering Lead - Fast Protocol at Fastㅤ
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQizheng Mao is an engineering lead and software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and cutting-edge blockchain and ZK infrastructure, currently leading the Fast Protocol team at Fast. He has driven major product work at Celer and Brevis Network, from cBridge and inter-chain messaging to a ZK circuit framework that halved circuit development time and a custom STARK-like prover design. Comfortable across Go, Solidity, Java, and cloud-native stacks, he repeatedly shortens development cycles by building reusable frameworks and high-availability services. Based in Champaign, IL, he pairs hands-on implementation with protocol research, having contributed to open-source projects like Plonky3 and productionized cross-chain routing and messaging systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Graphics Technology, Bachelor's degree, Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (95)
ui-components10
lua10
smart-contracts10
nvim10
guardian10
react-components10
solidity10
typescript10
neovim-plugin10
genesis10
neovim10
ethereum10
blockchain10
react10
yang9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
patrickmao93/patrickmao93.github.io
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:98 commits, 80 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
celer-network/tofu-contracts
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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