Melvin Li
New York,NY
Summary
Accomplished senior blockchain developer with 4+ years of hands-on experience in delivering top-notch Decentralized applications and troubleshooting for many startups and firms. With in-depth knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, implemented deep learning to forecast Cryptocurrency price and made market-competitive tokens. Focused on creating collaborative efforts between support and engineering teams to implement system or product level changes to benefit end-users. Eager to support building an impeccable online reputation by providing high-level customer support for startups and firms.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Blockchain Engineer
Cybereum
11.2024 - Current
- Developed a Decentralized Mega Project Management Smart Contract Suite combining Blockchain and Machine Learning technology for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other government clients such as the Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Created DAO's to facilitate corporate entities, vendors and contractors to manage projects, draft proposals and organize treasury fund management
- Integrated a Machine Learning Algorithm to estimate project overrun, estimated cost and risks associated to managing projects
- Led Smart Contract development in security testing and standard
- Drafted the system architecture and flow from Blockchain interactions to the backend user database and API
- Mentored other engineers on smart contract best practices, attack vectors, vulnerabilities and optimizations
Blockchain Engineer
Robot Sea Monster Games
07.2022 - 10.2024
- Led Backend development in ensuring robust quality controls and testing
- Used Solana and Anchor framework to build a highly responsive and low fee trading NFT trading platform
- Wrote security rules and testing plan for composable Solana smart contracts including Role Based access control, Value Overflow, Signer and signature checks
Founding Blockchain Engineer
ZeNFT Inc
08.2021 - 06.2022
- Designed, developed and tested a suite of smart contracts for use in a decentralized marketplace
- Led the research and implementation of various Ethereum Improved proposals (EIP's) for gas optimization in solidity
- Reduced cost to company by over 50%
- Researched and implemented various EIP protocols such as EIP712 signatures and hashing, EIP 1167 clone factories with ERC standards 1155 and 721
- Developed Clone factories using Ethereum EIP 1167 to allow for template contracts with optimized gas cost
Blockchain Engineer
Argonaut Blockchain Labs
08.2020 - 07.2021
- Used Rust to design and develop a substrate based Blockchain with post quantum signatures and IPFS integration
- Used Falcon512 a finalist in the National Institute for Standards and technology Post Quantum competition for use in Lattice Based Cryptographic signatures
- Implemented a UTXO based chain in substrate for parallel processing
- Used rust to implement substrate based WASM Smart contracts for better security and speed
Education
Bachelor's - Computer Science
Nanyang Technological University
07.2020
Skills
- Amazon Web Services expertise
- Blockchain implementation
- C/C
- Ethereum
- FEA
- GitHub
- Java
- JavaScript
- Linux
- Modular
- Python
- Quantum
- React
- Rust
- Smart Contract
- Solidity
LANGUAGES
English (Advanced)
Chinese (Native)
Interests
- Train Travel
- Road Trips
Timeline
Senior Blockchain Engineer
Cybereum
11.2024 - Current
Blockchain Engineer
Robot Sea Monster Games
07.2022 - 10.2024
Founding Blockchain Engineer
ZeNFT Inc
08.2021 - 06.2022
Blockchain Engineer
Argonaut Blockchain Labs
08.2020 - 07.2021
Bachelor's - Computer Science
Nanyang Technological University