Tianyi Zhang
Rust developer specializing service abstraction.
Work
Founder, Spacejam
Dec 2024 — Mar 2026- spacejam — JAM protocol implementation with the best performance, hand-rolled RISC-V compiler included.
Rust Developer, Gear Technologies
May 2023 — Oct 2024WASM engineer, working around the WASM VM, program SDKs and tooling.
Rust Developer, ChainSafe Systems
Apr 2021 — May 2023Mainly consulting — adapted libp2p for Nym, integrated Arweave into The Graph.
Rust Developer, Patract Labs
Nov 2020 — Apr 2021WASM debugger, porting ZK libraries to WASM.
Project I'm proud of
zink
Transpiler between WASM and EVM, babysitting every byte, challenging things people think are impossible. The proc-macros explain my thinking about how programs should be developed and the asm emitter is smooth like butter. The failure point is that I didn't build my own IR, which finally limited it at function boundaries in high-level usage.
What I'm looking for
- Open source is preferred.
- Taking responsibility for a specific part of a system, or doing the architecture of new systems.
- Full stack or frontend work only if I'm the designer as well, or paired with a designer who understands the tech. Best if the role talks to users and collects feedback — I don't want to develop blindly.
- Open to all industries, because all of them are integrated or integrating AI.
Education
BA Journalism, AnQing University
Jun 2019Left in the second year. Self-taught programmer.
Details
- Skills
- Rust (advanced), AI agents (intermediate)
- Remote
- Open to remote work
- Relocation
- Willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area
- Work authorization
- Not authorized to work in the US — visa sponsorship required
- Company size
- No preference