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Zach Perlman

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

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00 — origin

Fifteen years — following the gravity of the craft into whatever room it lives in.

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.

10+
Years shipping
81
Public repos
EVM
Chain of choice
3
Coffee / day
01 — constellations

Things I’ve built.

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
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
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
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
02 — trajectory

Where I’ve orbited.

  1. 2022.06 — now
    Engineer at QuikNode
    • 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. 2020.01 — now
    Builder-in-Residence (self) at Zlerp Labs
    • 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. 2015.08 — 2022.05
    Full-stack / Product Engineer at Prior startups
    • 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'.
03 — make contact

Let’s talk.

Not actively looking, but always happy to chat. Email is fastest; everything else is async.

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