Systems. Signal. Shape.
Web3 infrastructure · real-time systems · the fun parts of the web. Not actively looking, but always happy to chat.
01 / About
A Quiet
Engineer.
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.
02 / Work
Selected
Projects.
- 01
poc-distribution
Referral fee distribution PoCs · 2026
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.TypeScript · Solidity · Viem · Hardhat · Polygon
- 02
rawTxnAddressFinder
Raw transaction archaeology · 2025
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.JavaScript · ethers.js · Node.js
- 03
zlerplabs.com
A personal sandbox · 2025
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.js · MDX · Tailwind · Vercel
- 04
QuikNode Core
Blockchain RPC at scale · 2026
Day-job work on the platform powering thousands of web3 teams — multi-chain RPC routing, archive-node query optimization, and streaming WebSocket subscriptions.Go · TypeScript · Kubernetes · ClickHouse
03 / Career
Experience.
- 2022—NowQuikNodeEngineer
- 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—NowZlerp LabsBuilder-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—2022Prior startupsFull-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'.
04 / Contact
Let's
Work.
Not actively looking, but always happy to chat.
or email direct: z.h.perlman@gmail.com- Location
- Miami, FL
- GitHub
- github.com/Zlerp
- www.linkedin.com/in/zachperlman/
Set on a 12-column grid · Archivo & Archivo Black · 2026