Dash Core Group - Lead Backend Developer

⚡ 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.