Zhi Y
VP Of Engineering & Co-Founder at Syntaras Inc
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolZhi Y is a Vancouver-based engineering leader and serial founder with nine years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native, and AI-enabled products. As VP of Engineering and co-founder at Syntaras and CTO/co-founder at General Intelligence Technologies, he combines hands-on development with strategic product and infrastructure decisions across Web3, DeFi, and AI spaces. He previously led blockchain integrations and transaction processing at WonderFi and has deep experience in rapid prototyping, Node.js microservices, and AWS-driven deployments from his work at mimik technology. Trained as a physicist (BSc in Nuclear Physics from Simon Fraser University), he brings analytical rigor to system design and a knack for turning experimental proofs-of-concept into production SaaS and micro-SaaS offerings. Notably, he blends research-driven problem solving with entrepreneurial execution, repeatedly founding or co-founding ventures that bridge emerging tech and practical products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Nuclear Physics (Physics and Nuclear science), Bachelor of Science - BSc, Nuclear Physics (Physics and Nuclear science) at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (20)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
backend7
bitcoin6
trezor6
azure4
notification3
golang3
historical2
websocket2
graphql-api2
solidity2
blockchain2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mimikgit/mMessages
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 1 tag in 8 months
mimikgit/mGameLobby
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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