Runtian Zhou
Research Engineer at Aptos
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuntian Zhou is a Research Engineer with seven years of experience building low-level systems, currently working on Move language and VM runtime design at Novi and contributing to core blockchain tooling at Aptos. He has a strong systems background from roles at Aptos and Facebook, including LLVM optimization work during an early internship and production engineering experience thereafter. Runtian focuses on programming-language–adjacent problems—VMs, type checkers, compilers and runtime—and has shipped features that touch core blockchain semantics such as block events and writeset generation. Based in Kirkland and educated at Carnegie Mellon, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering and a curiosity for anything operating-system or compiler related that often leads him to improve both developer tooling and runtime correctness.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
aptos10
smart-contracts10
contract10
move10
blockchain10
unit-testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aptos-labs/aptos-core
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
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:675 reviews, 39 commits, 233 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Runtian contributed to the Aptos framework by adding and modifying functionalities related to block events and writeset generation, primarily within the `aptos-framework` module. They implemented a public function to generate a new block event and associated logic, and also added a command to the `aptos-cli` to generate writesets for firing events. Their work included changes to `block.move` (Move code) and smoke tests, signifying a focus on core blockchain functionality and tooling.
blockchain-platformblockchainuser-experienceblockchain-networksmart-contracts
runtian-zhou/libra
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 924 pushes in 2 years 4 months
financialreactjavascriptinfrastructurecurrency
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