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ZACH PERLMAN

> Engineer

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

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- STAGE 1 · PROFILE -

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.

POWER-UPS

  • TypeScript
  • Solidity
  • Go
  • Python
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Ethereum
  • Viem
  • Hardhat
  • Foundry
  • AWS
  • GraphQL
10+
Years shipping
81
Public repos
EVM
Chain of choice
3
Coffee / day

- STAGE 2 · QUESTS -

  • POC-DISTRIBUTION

    LVL 11

    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

    LVL 10

    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

    LVL 10

    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

    LVL 11

    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

- STAGE 3 · HIGH SCORES -

  1. ENGINEER

    @ QuikNode

    2022–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.

  2. BUILDER-IN-RESIDENCE (SELF)

    @ Zlerp Labs

    2020–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.

  3. FULL-STACK / PRODUCT ENGINEER

    @ Prior startups

    2015–2022
    • ★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'.

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