Tan Hao
Head Of Product Engineering at Alt Research
Singapore
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Top SchoolTan Hao is a Singapore-based Web3-native engineering leader with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable blockchain systems and trusted computing platforms. As Head of Product Engineering at AltLayer/Alt Research, he blends product-focused leadership with deep hands-on expertise in program analysis, enclave (SGX) applications, and protocol engineering. He was an early core developer and security lead at Zilliqa—co-founding teams, driving multiple testnets and mainnet launches, and authoring key ZIP/ZRC standards and token swap tooling. Tan is equally at home architecting infrastructure and mentoring teams, favoring freedom and empowerment while acting as an adviser and roadmap driver. His background spans academic research on binary instrumentation to practical deployments for financial pilots (Project Ubin), reflecting a rare mix of research-grade program analysis and production-grade blockchain security. Colleagues know him for shipping resilient systems, stewarding security practices, and turning complex distributed designs into operational platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma (Merit) GPA: 3.919/4 Infocomm Security Management, Diploma (Merit) GPA: 3.919/4 Infocomm Security Management at Singapore PolytechnicBachelor of computing (Honours) Computer Science (Specialization in information security), Bachelor of computing (Honours) Computer Science (Specialization in information security) at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (110)
mach10
metadata10
intermediate10
throughput10
scale10
sdk10
arweave10
thundercore10
verification10
portal10
ethereum-contract10
blockchain-platform10
evm10
ethereum10
blockchain10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Zilliqa/docs
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
zilliqa
alt-research/mach-avs
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 41 reviews, 33 PRs in 11 months
mach
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