Zhi Zhong
Director Of Engineering at IoTeX - The Internet of Trusted Things
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhi Zhong is a Director of Engineering based in Menlo Park with eight years of professional experience leading blockchain and IoT engineering teams at IoTeX. He progressed from software engineering lead to director, overseeing consensus, smart contract, security, machine learning, and full-stack product delivery for a production-grade Web3 platform. His hands-on backend contributions to the iotex-core Go implementation—introducing an EVMStateDBAdapter and refactoring state dependencies—show a practical depth in blockchain internals and smart-contract interactions. Earlier research roles at Facebook and the National University of Singapore reflect a strong foundation in machine learning and natural language processing that informs his systems-oriented approach. He combines academic rigor (PhD work) with startup-grade execution, often bridging research insights and production engineering to drive trusted, high-throughput distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Fudan UniversityPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
evm10
blockchain10
go10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
iotexproject/iotex-core
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Official implementation of IoTeX blockchain protocol in Go. An ultra-efficient EVM blockchain offering 1000 TPS with instant 1-block finality. Perfect for DeFi, DePIN tokenomics, Identities, and any trusted logic requiring Web3 composability
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1382 reviews, 399 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zhi's commits focused on removing dependencies of the state in packages and refactoring the code. The contributions involved modifying server components, consensus schemes, simulator code, and test files. The user introduced EVMStateDBAdapter for accessing the IoTeX blockchain and made changes related to smart contract interactions, demonstrating a focus on backend functionalities related to the IoTeX blockchain protocol.
internet-of-trusted-thingscryptographymachinefigolangconsensus
CoderZhi/iotex-core
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Connecting the physical world, block by block.
Contributions:297 pushes, 234 branches in 7 months
lteblockchainphysicaliot
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