Will Chen
Co-Founder & CEO at Idyllic Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Chen is a founder and technical leader with 11 years of experience building language runtimes, tooling, and developer experiences for blockchain ecosystems. As Co-Founder & CEO of Idyllic Labs and previously Terran One, he has led research and product efforts creating a smart-contract language (CWScript), browser-instrumented VMs, and interactive debuggers to improve Web3 DevX. He combines systems-level engineering (VMs, compilers) with dev tooling and documentation—evidenced by hands-on contributions to popular Terra projects like terra.js and its docs. His background includes developer relations and SDK work at Terraform Labs and experimental VM and language work at Covalent AI, giving him a rare cross-section of community-building and low-level implementation skills. Based in San Francisco and trained in applied mathematics at UC Berkeley, he favors design-driven solutions to thorny developer problems and often surfaces usability insights that aren’t obvious from code alone.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyArcadia High School
Github Skills (15)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
vue10
vue-jsx10
typescript-types10
documentation10
blockchain9
web3js9
markdown-it9
markdown9
html6
css6
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
terra-money/terra.js
Apr 2020 - May 2021
JavaScript SDK for Terra, written in TypeScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 138 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the `terra.js` JavaScript SDK. Their contributions involved refactoring the documentation directory, adding the project's logo to the documentation, and implementing detailed descriptions on how to load and use the SDK in the browser. Additionally, the user added new wasm messages and associated LCD endpoints, and also incorporated address validation features.
javascripttypescript
terra-money/docs
May 2020 - Aug 2021
🗂 The official documentation for the Terra blockchain
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 136 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on updating and reorganizing the documentation for the Terra blockchain. Their contributions included changes to the configuration files, specifically involving the navigation and sidebar structure, and updates to footer links. They also made changes to the documentation's overall structure, adding new sections and reorganizing existing ones.
terra-blockchain
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