Zhenyang Shi
Protocol Engineer at Conduit
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenyang Shi is a protocol engineer with eight years of blockchain-focused experience, currently building core infrastructure at Conduit after senior protocol roles at Immutable and ConsenSys. He specializes in Ethereum client and layer-2 work—contributing to Hyperledger Besu (enterprise Java Ethereum client) with CLI/config reliability and experimental chain pruning, and delivering production-grade zkEVM and bridge systems at Immutable. Comfortable across research and implementation, he has shipped upgrade- and storage-focused protocol work (Shanghai, Besu optimizations) as well as compliance and wallet relayer backends. Based in Queensland, Australia, Zhenyang blends systems-level engineering with hands-on testing and productization—often surfacing subtle configuration and interoperability issues before they reach users.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - BE(Hons) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - BE(Hons) Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (9)
hyperledger-besu10
javas10
junit10
ethereum10
blockchain10
java10
jtest10
backend9
p2p8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
besu-eth/besu
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
An enterprise-grade Java-based, Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum client https://github.com/besu-eth/besu/wiki
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zhenyang contributed to the Besu project by implementing and testing various functionalities related to command-line interface (CLI) options, configuration, and service enablement, ensuring consistent behavior across different configuration methods (CLI, ENV, TOML). Their work included adding comprehensive tests to validate these configurations. Additionally, the user was involved in implementing experimental chain data pruning features and updating the engine API to include changes from the Ethereum execution-apis.
ethereumjavabesublockchainp2p
ConsenSys/fc-retrieval-itest
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 21 reviews, 31 PRs in 5 months
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