Summary
Zihe Huang is a data scientist and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across blockchain, supply chain, and consumer NFT platforms. He combines hands-on engineering—designing APIs, smart contracts, and high-throughput backend services—with customer-focused delivery, routinely resolving live production issues and aligning cross-functional priorities to ship complex products. His work spans startups and Web3 firms, from architecting scalable EDI and contract-sync systems for enterprise pharma to improving marketplace search and pagination for high-traffic NFT drops. Based in Seattle, he pairs formal systems engineering training with a practical knack for live debugging and operational readiness, often stepping into developer relations roles to bridge product and developer communities. Notably, he co-founded a commodity-backed cryptocurrency effort and has repeatedly delivered 10x improvements in throughput and integrations at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Systems Engineering and Design, Master of Engineering - MEng Systems Engineering and Design at University of Michigan
Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University
English, Chinese