“The fun parts of the web have always been the fun parts,” says Perlman from his desk in Miami, FL.
By ZACH PERLMAN · Staff Engineer · Dateline: Miami, FL
MIAMI — In a dusty corner office overlooking the bay, a self-described “quiet engineer” has spent a decade shipping the unglamorous parts of the modern web. Web3 infrastructure · real-time systems · the fun parts of the web. Observers note a steady output — small utilities, referral-fee distribution contracts, the occasional blog post — delivered without fanfare. Today, the Chronicle presents his folio, set in columns.
By STAFF · Filed 06:00 EST · Desk: Technology
Four notices, arranged by job code. Inquire by wire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By STAFF · Dateline: Miami
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.
By STAFF · Dateline: Unspecified
Personal R&D — smart-contract experiments, small web apps, occasional blog posts at zlerplabs.com.
Published open-source utilities like rawTxnAddressFinder and distribution PoCs.
By STAFF · Dateline: Unspecified
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'.
Correspondence welcomed · Brevity appreciated · All letters subject to editing for space
Not actively looking, but always happy to chat. The desk is presently operating out of Miami, FL. Use the form below, or reach us through any of the channels listed in the colophon.