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Zach Perlman

Engineer

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

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10+

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Public repos

EVM

Chain of choice

Coffee / day

Profile · 01

Ghost in the machine.

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.

Loadout

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

LOC · Miami, FL

STATUS · Not actively looking, but always happy to chat

Archive · 02

Transmissions.

poc-distribution
// 2026
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
rawTxnAddressFinder
// 2025
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
zlerplabs.com
// 2025
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
QuikNode Core
// 2026
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

Ledger · 03

Service record.

Engineer
@ QuikNode
2022.06 — NOW
- ▸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.
Builder-in-Residence (self)
@ Zlerp Labs
2020.01 — NOW
- ▸Personal R&D — smart-contract experiments, small web apps, occasional blog posts at zlerplabs.com.
- ▸Published open-source utilities like rawTxnAddressFinder and distribution PoCs.
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'.