ZACH PERLMAN

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

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15 years shipping systems that don’t blink.

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.

01TypeScript
02Solidity
03Go
04Python
05React
06Next.js
07Node.js
08PostgreSQL
09Redis
10Ethereum

ls ./projects --sort=year

Ship log

4 active rows

YEAR	NAME	TAGLINE	STACK	P99_MS
2026	poc-distribution	Referral fee distribution PoCs	TypeScriptSolidityViemHardhatPolygon	18.0
2025	rawTxnAddressFinder	Raw transaction archaeology	JavaScriptethers.jsNode.js	21.0
2025	zlerplabs.com	A personal sandbox	Next.jsMDXTailwindVercel	24.0
2026	QuikNode Core	Blockchain RPC at scale	GoTypeScriptKubernetesClickHouse	27.0

cat poc-distribution/README

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.

cat rawtxnaddressfinder/README

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.

history | tac

Deploy history

git history

Contributions 2026

user: Zlerp

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2022.06 → NOW3y 10m

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.

2020.01 → NOW6y 3m

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.

2015.08 → 2022.056y 9m

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'.

/contact

Establish session.

Not actively looking, but always happy to chat. Fastest response is email — everything else is monitored async.

last touch · 2026-04-25 11:57 · exit 0

7:57 AM EST

→Good morning.