Leeran Chang

Leeren Chang is a software engineer and technology entrepreneur whose career spans cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, backend development, and startup engineering. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Hudi and previously served as Senior Software Engineer at Story and Co-Founder and CTO of Dopamine, following engineering roles at Google and Yelp. ^[7]

Education

Chang graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science in 2017. ^[1]

Career

Chang began his engineering career with software engineering internships at Netskope, Okta, and Amazon, working on event-query tooling, cybersecurity features, data dashboards, and full-stack applications. He then joined Yelp as a Software Engineer on the security team, where he worked on backend projects including compromised-password detection and a threat-intelligence platform for incident response. At Google, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Media team, focusing on infrastructure for scaling Node.js application platforms, infrastructure-as-code deployment workflows, identity and access management, secrets management, and Google Cloud network optimization. Alongside his Google tenure, he co-founded Dopamine and served as its CTO, before joining Story as a Senior Software Engineer in 2023. Since October 2024, he has served as Founder and CEO of Hudi. ^[2]

Hudi

Hudi is an onchain perpetual trading platform built on Sui that provides 24/7 leveraged exposure to Asian equity markets. The platform offers tokenized perpetual markets for more than 40 stocks and indexes across Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong, allowing users to trade both long and short positions without directly accessing local brokerage accounts or traditional foreign-exchange infrastructure. Hudi is designed to support funding through bank accounts, cards, or cryptocurrency and aims to provide continuous access to markets that otherwise operate within regional trading hours and may impose restrictions on foreign retail investors. Its focus is on extending onchain equity trading beyond predominantly U.S.-focused assets to include broader exposure to Asian markets. ^[8]