AESTHETICA E S T H E T I Cヴェイパー1984SIDE ARETROレトロNEW WAVE
Track 01 · Side A · 1984

ZACH PERLMAN

> AESTHETIC.ENGINEER.EXE — loading…

Web3 infrastructure · real-time systems · the fun parts of the web. Dial-in from Miami, FL. Side A of an ongoing mixtape.

10+
01 · Years shipping
81
02 · Public repos
EVM
03 · Chain of choice
3
04 · Coffee / day
/// FILE 02 · ABOUT

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> 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.

TypeScriptSolidityGoPythonReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisEthereumViemHardhatFoundryAWSGraphQL
/// FILE 03 · TAPES

THE TAPE RACK

TAPE 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
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TAPE 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
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TAPE 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
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TAPE 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
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/// FILE 04 · PLAYLIST

CAREER.PLAYLIST

  1. TRACK 01JUN 22NOW

    Engineer· 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. TRACK 02JAN 20NOW

    Builder-in-Residence (self)· 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. TRACK 03AUG 15MAY 22

    Full-stack / Product Engineer· 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'.
/// FILE 05 · DIAL-IN

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> Not actively looking, but always happy to chat. Broadcasting from Miami, FL. Leave a tone after the beep.

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