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Raullen Chai

Founder of MachineFi Lab

United States

Overview 

Raullen Chai is the CEO and Co-founder of IoTeX and MachineFi Lab, with a background as an angel investor. He has held leadership roles at companies like Uber and Google, and has invested in startups such as Nubila and Bedrock. Chai holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and has been involved in pioneering projects in the fields of IoT, blockchain, and cryptography. He is known for his expertise in software development, machine learning, and security, making significant contributions to the tech industry.

Work Experience 

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MachineFi Lab

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2021 - Current

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IoTeX: A Decentralized Network for Internet of Things

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2017

    We are actively hiring. Drop me a line if you want to join us to work on the next generation of blockchain technology!

IoTeX is a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains.

Raised $50,000,000.00 from Foresight Ventures, FutureMoney, Metric Ventures, Borderless Capital, Escape Velocity, Amber Group, Waterdrip Capital, SNZ Holding and Hashkey Exchange.

iotex.io
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Industrial Internet Consortium

  • Member Indutrial Distributed Ledger Task Group

    2019

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Uber

  • Lead of Crypto R&D and Engineering Security

    2016 - 2017

    Lead the crypto team to design and develop cryptography platforms, services and tools to address business needs, e.g., KMS, PKI, IAM, Auth and crypto SDK.

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

uber.com
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Google

  • Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead

    2013 - 2016

    Founding engineer of Google Cloud Load Balancer (https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/), designed and led areas like high-throughput distributed data-pushing, SSL offload, HTTPs load balancing, stackdriver logging, backend authentication and auto-scaling; Leading contributor of Google's reverse proxying system that terminates user traffic, performs application-level load balancing and caching, enforces DOS prevention policies, and encrypts/decrypts/authenticates at both ends; Main contributor of Certificate Transparency

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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Oracle

  • Member of Technical Staff

    2012 - 2013

    Lead the design and implementation of security features for Oracle Enterprise Search (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/search/oses/overview/index.html) including Auth{N, Z}, Identity Management, Encryption and Privacy Enhancement.

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

oracle.com
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University of Waterloo

  • Research Fellow

    2012 - 2012

    Continue research on: -- Lightweight Cryptography -- Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoT) -- Privacy-Preserving Techniques for Blockchain

Education 

Investments 

Nubila

Seed

Total funding: $3M

Bedrock

Seed

Total funding: $25M

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