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Alex Lu

@alexlu2000

Waterloo, Canada

I'm Alex Lu! 👋

Blockchain Enthusiast · CS Undergrad Student · AI Researcher

About Me 🚀

I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo (Class of 2027). I’m passionate about decentralization, AI, and building real-world tools that make a difference. I’m actively involved in:

  • UW Blockchain Club as a technical executive, helping run events such as Coffee and Code to bring Waterloo students on-chain
  • CS Club Project Program as a blockchain mentor, advising freshman students on building web3 projects for the program
  • Applied AI Research as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in Dr. Edith Law's Augmented Intelligence lab.

I thrive on innovation and collaboration—there’s nothing quite like brainstorming, coding, and shipping products that push boundaries. Thats why I love hackathons, and have 10+ around world!
Devpost: https://devpost.com/alexlu2000clash

Work Experience 💼

  • Coinbase (May – Aug. 2025)
    Incoming Software Engineering Intern on the Base Ethereum L2 infrastructure team in San Francisco

  • Coinbase Asset Management (Sep. – Dec. 2024)
    Software Engineering Intern in Stamford, CT

    • Built new smart contracts for an RFQ system using Foundry, EIP-712, ERC-20, and UniV4 hooks on Base
    • Developed a Bloomberg Excel plugin equivalent for onchain instruments (15,000+ data points) using React, Webpack, TypeScript
    • Deployed an indexer with The Graph, AssemblyScript, PostgreSQL, Docker on CB Diamond
  • University of Waterloo AI Lab (Apr. – Aug. 2024)
    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    • Fine-tuned Meta’s SeamlessM4Tv2 model for medical translations with Torchrun on AWS Sagemaker + S3
  • University of Waterloo HCI (Jan. – Apr. 2024)
    Research Developer Intern

    • Led development of a newcomers app (in partnership with Ontario Health and Meta)
    • Published an internal React Native UI library with 25+ WCAG-compliant components
    • Enabled multilingual app support (10+ languages) via i18n JSON schemas

Notable Projects 🏆

  • dBeats

    • Cross-chain MP3 NFT minting with Solidity, Hardhat, IPFS, ERC-721, Ethers.js, React
    • Awards: Best use of Polygon zkEVM, Quicknode NFT API, FIL/IPFS, and Worldcoin at ETHGlobal NYC 2023
  • Web3Warfare

    • Physical laser tag game with onchain events, bounties, and token rewards
    • Awards: Best Technical Integration of Sign Hooks, Best Immersive Gaming with Dynamic.xyz at ETHGlobal SF 2024
  • Wotion.co

    • Open-source library of widgets for Notion, with 5,000+ users and 70+ GitHub Stars
    • Built using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Axios, MongoDB, Next.js, Chakra UI

Super excited to hack at ETHDenver! ✨