Eric Tang

Directed the design and engineering that made economic incentives operational through software: orchestrator interactions, bonding and reward settlement mechanisms, and the runtime interfaces between off‑chain transcoding services and on‑chain accounting. Technical decisions around reliability, monitoring and compatibility determined how operators could participate at scale and how misbehavior could be detected and penalized. Led or coordinated the development of node software, tooling and developer APIs that lowered the barrier to becoming a service provider or delegator. Choices about modularity, openness of telemetry and integration points influenced third‑party adopter patterns and how quickly streaming projects could embed Livepeer components into existing stacks. Engaged with the open source contributor base to prioritize performance and security hardening in response to real‑world operational incidents and load tests. This engineering stewardship shaped the protocol’s upgrade cadence and the technical governance conversations that decided when to migrate or extend on‑chain contracts versus improving off‑chain operator tooling.