Hello! I’m Victor.

I’m a founder, community builder and engineer. I like turning messy questions about trust and coordination into useful products.

I’m from Xiamen, on China’s southeastern coast across the Taiwan Strait. I spent several formative years in Beijing’s Haidian district and in Baltimore, and have called Silicon Valley home since 2012.

I studied at Tsinghua in Beijing and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, then spent more than a decade at Google. There I worked on Search, YouTube creator tools, WikiLoop DoubleCheck for Wikipedia, and smart-contract architecture at Google Labs.

Today I’m building Namefi—bringing DNS names onchain as programmable assets—and editing Ethereum standards, with a focus on safer, more legible wallet experiences. I also make small tools and write about what I’m learning.

When software alone wasn’t enough, I founded ERCRef.org, ZaiGeZaiGu, DotLift, and Community Builder Toolbox—communities for Ethereum builders, public-interest technologists, cultural life, and the people who bring communities to life. I also contribute to Wikipedia and served as a volunteer at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

I live in Sunnyvale, CA with my wife and our young kid. Away from screens, I enjoy frisbee, running, bouldering, collecting wall art, and improv. If our interests overlap, please say hello.

Writing

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