Zhao Chaoyi is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with 11 years’ experience building backend systems, SaaS platforms, and blockchain tooling, combining startup grit with enterprise R&D pedigree from IBM China Research. He helped found two startups focused on Hyperledger Fabric and IoT SaaS, owning architecture, tenant/permission systems, and a Node.js-based middleware while also shipping front-end and BPMN capabilities in smart contracts. A strong TypeScript/Node.js practitioner who is comfortable in Python, Go and Java, he champions test-driven development and automated testing (Mocha/Jest, Cucumber, K6). Zhao is an active contributor and maintainer on Hyperledger Fabric Node.js projects, where he improved performance and added private data and ledger metadata APIs—work used by the broader permissioned blockchain community. He’s fluent in English, experienced with Docker/Kubernetes microservices and CI/CD, and known for quickly researching and adopting the right technologies to move projects from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at 中国科学院上海微系统所
Bachelor's degree, Optics/Optical Sciences, Bachelor's degree, Optics/Optical Sciences at University of Science and Technology of China
Contributions summary:Zhao primarily contributed to the Hyperledger Fabric Node.js Smart Contracts repository by refactoring code and adding new features. Key contributions include replacing the logging library Log4Js with Winston, improving instantiation speed. Furthermore, the user added support for private data manipulation with new Shim APIs and enhanced the node-shim with chaincode page query capabilities. Additionally, the user implemented key-level metadata APIs, reflecting a focus on ledger interaction and state management within the Hyperledger Fabric environment.
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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