Zhe Li is a Head of Staking Service and seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable cloud applications, security controls, and compliant systems across e-commerce, FinTech and blockchain. Based in Gothenburg, he currently designs staking services for Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems while also leading infrastructure and RPC/node platforms at gateway.fm. He has deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native tooling, CI/CD, GitOps and security standards (PCI-DSS, ISO27001) from roles at Minna Technologies and multiple startups. A pragmatic full-stack engineer and early-stage hire, Zhe repeatedly turns legacy systems into resilient, automated platforms and has founded local tech communities and startups. He contributes to notable open-source projects like web3.py—adding fallback contract support and gas estimation—showing an ability to bridge protocol-level code with production services. Colleagues rely on him for shipping secure, auditable systems and for encouraging a "try to push commits daily" engineering mindset.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Materials Chemistry, Bachelor Materials Chemistry at University of Jinan
Master Systems Biology, Master Systems Biology at University of Gothenburg
Master Bioinformatics, Master Bioinformatics at Chalmers University of Technology
A python interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and ecosystem.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 57 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhe primarily focused on enhancing the `web3.py` library, specifically implementing fallback function support, including adding the function to the `ContractFunctions` object, adding `estimateGas()` support, and creating tests and documentation for it. Further contributions involved fixing code review comments, reverting a naming change, and addressing test failures. They also worked on refactoring how the contract constructor handles arguments, and other small bug fixes.
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