Tommy Hang is an investor and engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and shipping software across on-chain analytics, consumer finance, zero-knowledge systems, and decentralized finance. He combines founder grit—co-founding an acquired campus startup—with engineering chops demonstrated by contributions to robotics tooling (ROS2 laser_filters) and zk frameworks at Starknet and Arbitrum Foundation. As President of Blockchain at Berkeley and a Venture Fellow at Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, he blends community leadership with deep technical product work that spans backend systems and cryptographic infrastructure. Now investing at Archetype, he evaluates early-stage protocols and developer-focused tooling through the lens of production experience and user growth. Notably, his OSS work modernized ROS codepaths to ROS2 lifecycle nodes and PointCloud2, reflecting an attention to compatibility and long-lived maintainability beyond prototype code.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology, SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Lowell High School
Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program, Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program at European Innovation Academy
Assorted filters designed to operate on 2D planar laser scanners, which use the sensor_msgs/LaserScan type.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
Contributions summary:Tommy primarily focused on enhancing the `laser_filters` library by addressing compilation issues and implementing improvements. Their work included refactoring and updating include headers, such as changing `*.h` to `*.hpp`, and fixing ROS2 syntax. The user also updated filters to use PointCloud2 data structures and refactored code to use rclcpp_lifecycle::LifecycleNode for specific filters, ensuring better compatibility and functionality within the ROS2 environment. The contributions involved substantial changes to existing filter implementations to improve the usability.
YOLOv4 / Scaled-YOLOv4 / YOLO - Neural Networks for Object Detection (Windows and Linux version of Darknet )
Contributions:2 pushes in 8 months
pytorchwindowsdeep-learninglinuxobject-detection
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