Derek Chiang's blog

About me

I’m the founder of ZeroDev, a pioneer of smart accounts and now a full-fledged wallet infrastructure platform. We were acquired by Offchain (creator of Arbitrum) in 2025, where I continue to run ZeroDev.

Previously I was the cofounder and CTO of Eternal, a platform that helps streamers monetize through digital collectibles. Before that, I built and sold Tenfold Protocol, and worked as a senior engineer at DFINITY and the Director of DApp Development at ThunderCore.

Before jumping into Web3, I worked extensively on distributed systems at a number of stellar startups. I was the lead engineer at Pachyderm and previously worked on Consul at HashiCorp, DC/OS at Mesosphere, OpenStack at Nebula, and a number of proprietary projects. See my LinkedIn and Github for more.

I studied computer science at Cornell and grew up in Shenzhen, China.