● zach@lumen · tty1 · uptime 15yv0.15
$ cat /home/zach/.identity

Zach Perlman

> Engineer

> Web3 infrastructure · real-time systems · the fun parts of the web

./contact.shls ./projects
BTC87.42k▲1.27%ETH4.31k▼0.84%GAS18.4BLOCK21.3Moffline
10+
Years shipping
81
Public repos
EVM
Chain of choice
3
Coffee / day
$ ./repl --live# real commands. try 'help'.
● repl · tty2 · zsh
zach@lumen:/home/zach $ 
tip: try 'help'
zach@lumen:~/portfolio$whoami--verbose

> Engineer at QuikNode building blockchain RPC and developer tooling used across the crypto ecosystem. I like building things that are fast, small, and a little weird — from referral-fee distribution smart contracts to raw-transaction sleuthing scripts. Web is fun.

> Miami, FL · Not actively looking, but always happy to chat
  • // skills.txt
  • TypeScript
  • Solidity
  • Go
  • Python
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Ethereum
  • Viem
  • Hardhat
  • Foundry
  • AWS
  • GraphQL
// contribs.graph
user: Zlerp · 52w
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  • ▸

    poc-distribution

    —Referral fee distribution PoCs
    [2026]

    Three parallel proofs-of-concept for scalable on-chain referral payouts: 1inch CumulativeMerkleDrop, Thirdweb Airdrop, and Splits Protocol. Live-tested on Polygon mainnet with gas benchmarks.

    TypeScriptSolidityViemHardhatPolygon
  • ▸

    rawtxnaddressfinder

    —Raw transaction archaeology
    [2025]

    JavaScript CLI that decodes raw Ethereum transactions and surfaces the signer address + nonce without needing an RPC. Great for forensics and cold-wallet recovery flows.

    JavaScriptethers.jsNode.js
  • ▸

    zlerplabs.com

    —A personal sandbox
    [2025]

    Long-running experiments blog — part playground, part portfolio, part accidental README. Runs on Next.js with a custom MDX pipeline and view-transitions-powered post navigation.

    Next.jsMDXTailwindVercel
  • ▸

    quiknode core

    —Blockchain RPC at scale
    [2026]

    Day-job work on the platform powering thousands of web3 teams — multi-chain RPC routing, archive-node query optimization, and streaming WebSocket subscriptions.

    GoTypeScriptKubernetesClickHouse
zach@lumen:~/portfolio$git log--author=alex --pretty=short

  1. Engineer

    @QuikNode
    2022.06 → present
    • *Built internal tooling for blockchain RPC observability, adopted across multiple product teams.
    • *Shipped referral-fee distribution infrastructure handling on-chain payouts to thousands of developers.
    • *Contributor on the core platform powering RPC + streams for web3 developers.

  2. Builder-in-Residence (self)

    @Zlerp Labs
    2020.01 → present
    • *Personal R&D — smart-contract experiments, small web apps, occasional blog posts at zlerplabs.com.
    • *Published open-source utilities like rawTxnAddressFinder and distribution PoCs.

  3. Full-stack / Product Engineer

    @Prior startups
    2015.08 → 2022.05
    • *Shipped consumer and B2B products across a handful of early-stage teams.
    • *Owned frontend, backend, and a lot of 'whatever nobody else wants to touch'.
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