Issue No. 015 · 2026Miami, FL

Zach PerlmanEngineer.

Role
Engineer
Focus
Web3 infrastructure
Status
Not actively looking, but always happy to chat
Page
01 / 05
Zach PerlmanDISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSRUSTTYPESCRIPTBROOKLYN15 YRS
Zach PerlmanDISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSRUSTTYPESCRIPTBROOKLYN15 YRS

§01 — About

Who
is this
guy?

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.

TypeScript
Solidity
Go
Python
React
Next.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
Ethereum
Viem
Hardhat
Foundry
AWS
GraphQL

§02 — Selected Work · scroll sideways

FOUR
shipped
THINGS.

No. 01 / 2026

poc-distribution

Referral fee distribution PoCs

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
No. 02 / 2025

rawTxnAddressFinder

Raw transaction archaeology

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
No. 03 / 2025

zlerplabs.com

A personal sandbox

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
No. 04 / 2026

QuikNode Core

Blockchain RPC at scale

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

GoTypeScriptKubernetesClickHouse

§03 — Experience

WHERE
& WHEN.

2022/NOW
QuikNode
Engineer
  • ►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.
2020/NOW
Zlerp Labs
Builder-in-Residence (self)
  • ►Personal R&D — smart-contract experiments, small web apps, occasional blog posts at zlerplabs.com.
  • ►Published open-source utilities like rawTxnAddressFinder and distribution PoCs.
2015/2022
Prior startups
Full-stack / Product Engineer
  • ►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'.
HIRING?LET'S TALKz.h.perlman@gmail.com★OPEN TO
HIRING?LET'S TALKz.h.perlman@gmail.com★OPEN TO

§04 — Contact

SENDA LETTER.

Form · FX-01 · TransmitFAX ME.
Signed, sealed — by you. One copy only.

— Analogue channels below —

Emailz.h.perlman@gmail.com→CodeGITHUB→PaperLINKEDIN→SignalX · TWITTER→

Colophon · Set in DM Serif Display & IBM Plex Mono · Printed on the web, 2026

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