Honglei Cong has joined Ontology as a Senior Blockchain Technology Professional, joining our 30+ strong technical team working on the construction and expansion of the distributed trust network.

Cong is a professional in distributed systems and decentralized consensus algorithm design. He previously worked on distributed network protocols and distributed storage systems at Cisco and EMC, and later moved onto blockchain architecture design for large business groups.

Cong excels in a range of blockchain structures and protocols, and participated in building the biggest alliance chain (between Union Pay, JD, CMB, and Wanda Group) in China. His work experience also includes crypto exchanges, supply chain, digital contracts, attestation, and other blockchain applications. He played a key role in Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project and is certified as a blockchain performance assessment professional by China Electronics Standardization Institute. He also led a team and won second place in Hyperledger’s Asia Hackathon.

Cong said, “blockchain provides a new and wide range of collaborative models for the internet world to create a new trust mechanism. Although it has its limitations, with the rapid development of blockchain technology and development of dApps, blockchain will become the core technology for our future digital society in both China and the rest of the world. I am very pleased to join Ontology and be part of building this global distributed trust infrastructure.”

Li Jun, Founder of Ontology, was very pleased with the addition of another senior blockchain technology expert. He said that talent is the crucial factor in the development of the blockchain industry. Ontology attaches an immense importance to personnel training, attracting talent, and technical community building. At present, Ontology has built an outstanding technical team with mixed backgrounds, advanced technology strength, and rich experience in blockchain implementation. In addition to excellent technical experts, there is an excellent team of engineers and implementers with strong industry backgrounds, ready to produce blockchain solutions for real world businesses.

At the same time, Li says that in addition to building an outstanding core technical team, Ontology attaches a great importance to the development of an open-source technical community. We welcome the participation of institutions both inside China and internationally to make technical contributions to the development, testing, and design of Ontology’s infrastructure. At the same time, we welcome product designers and user experience professionals to provide feedback, to together promote the development of an open and welcome community.

The Ontology Team