Dash Core Group

Lead Backend Developer

📍 Phoenix, Arizona 📅 April 2016 - May 2018 💼 Consultancy Contract
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⚡ Major Innovation

Invented/contributed ChainLock & SML concepts - a major technological breakthrough now used in projects with $350B+ market cap

Technology Stack

React TypeScript JavaScript C++ ZMQ Docker NPM GitHub

Protocol Innovation

  • Spearheaded Dash's decentralized API (DAPI) development
  • Invented/contributed ChainLock & SML concepts - major technological breakthrough
  • R&D/prototyping of key innovative concepts: Decentralized Authentication for service "Sign in with Dash"
  • DAPI architecture and implementation
  • Blockchain User concept and implementation
  • LLMQ (Long-Living Masternode Quorums) design
  • DML (Decentralized Masternode List) specification

Open Source Leadership

  • Maintained 10+ OSS packages under @dashevo
  • Integrated Insight API for blockchain exploration
  • Adapted forks for Dash ecosystem
  • Improved key JS libraries for the community (Insight API, Bitcore)
  • Created GitHub organization and NPM namespace

Team & Project Management

  • Led/created platform team & hiring processes
  • Project management across 2 teams
  • Internal methodology reorganization (introduced Agile to the organization)
  • Technical recruitment engineering (1 PO, 1 Scrum Master, 4 developers)
  • Integration Engineer: Guided 3rd party dev teams in integration processes

Community & Evangelism

  • Key public tech speaker at conferences
  • Hackathon organization and participation
  • Podcast appearances and technical interviews
  • Community engagement (Slack, Twitter, Discord)
  • Crisis management and incident response
This was the starting point in my career when things started to really get weird. I can't recall enough all the crazy things that happened during that time. Dash grew so much too, that everything was exciting, the freedom the tech team had was crazy, it allowed to built so many stuff, so fast, creative. The ability to fix issues on the fly, sometimes stuff that need to be invented (Chainlocks, SML, Quorums...) or pioneer implementations of new concepts (Masternodes, BLS, Identity, DAOs). Everything was superb timing for my career, and I'm grateful for the opportunity of having worked with such brilliant and smart people in DCG or the community.