Zainan Zhou
Founder & CEO at Namefi by D3Serve Labs
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZainan Zhou is a veteran software leader and founder with 14 years of experience building product and protocol-level software across Google, YouTube, and the Ethereum ecosystem. As Founder & CEO of Namefi and a long-standing editor/author of Ethereum Improvement Proposals, he bridges consumer product engineering with blockchain standards and DeFi innovation. His background includes leading smart contract architecture at Labs@Google and front-end tech leadership on YouTube fan engagement, demonstrating fluency across backend, frontend, and crypto stacks. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core tooling in projects like Wechaty and maintained updates to the canonical ethereum/EIPs repo, showing a habit of shipping pragmatic fixes and examples. Based in Mountain View and fluent in both research-driven and startup environments, he combines deep technical rigor with community-building instincts—reflected in his ENS xinbenlv.eth and a hands-on approach to tokenizing DNS names as NFTs.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityHigh School, High School at Xiamen No.1 High School of FujianBachelor Department of Automation, Bachelor Department of Automation at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
wechaty10
application-framework10
solidity10
app-framework10
bots10
ethereum10
blockchain10
googlebot10
web-framework10
nodejs10
javascript9
conversational-ai9
html9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/EIPs
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:697 reviews, 72 commits, 134 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zainan's commits primarily focus on updating and adding content to the EIP repository, specifically concerning Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). The contributions include adding links to Discord channels, updating the website header, and adding asset files related to EIPs such as EIP-5247, EIP-5453, and EIP-5269. These changes involve modifying HTML and Solidity code, as well as adding testing assets. The user's work ensures that the repository stays up-to-date with important community resources and proposal specifications.
ethereumimprovement-proposalblockchainsoliditysmart-contracts
wechaty/wechaty
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Conversational RPA SDK for Chatbot Makers. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/7q8NBZbQzt
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 48 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Zainan's contributions focus on enhancing the Wechaty framework's core functionality and examples. They added a feature to print the NodeJS version, enhanced error handling by printing the full error trace, and fixed an issue related to missing content in the firer.ts file. Additionally, the user added a "hot-import-bot" example to showcase the Wechaty framework's capabilities.
roboticsmakerswhatsappconversationalconversational-ai
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