Renee Tso
Software Engineer at Aptos Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRenee Tso is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and infrastructure systems, currently focused on indexing blockchain data at Aptos Labs. She brings proven experience from Facebook across Music Insights, Instagram Shopping, and Groups, where she shipped user-facing features and platform services. At Aptos she contributed to the core layer-1 project, improving protobuf transaction decoding, adding gzip compression and metrics to the indexer gRPC for better performance and observability. Renee combines large-scale product experience with low-level system work, comfortable moving between developer ergonomics, performance tuning, and operational telemetry. Based in New York, she has a Computer Science degree from UIUC and a habit of surfacing practical documentation and monitoring improvements that make migrations and debugging less painful.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mission San Jose High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (11)
aptos10
move10
rust10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
blockchain10
grpc10
smart-contracts9
data-structures8
data-structure8
caching7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aptos-labs/aptos-core
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:286 reviews, 106 PRs, 180 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Renee contributed to the Aptos core blockchain project, focusing on the data service. Their work involved refactoring code related to protobuf transaction decoding and integrating gzip compression for the indexer gRPC. They also added metrics and logging functionalities to the indexer gRPC service, improving monitoring and debugging capabilities. Documentation updates were also included to assist with migration to the new indexer.
blockchain-platformblockchainuser-experienceblockchain-networksmart-contracts
aptos-labs/aptos-indexer-processors
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Set of core processors that index data on the Aptos blockchain
Contributions:9 releases, 613 reviews, 234 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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