Patrick O'grady
Founder at Commonware
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarPatrick O'Grady is a founder and backend-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building blockchain infrastructure and production-grade systems. He founded Commonware and previously contributed at Ava Labs, Coinbase, and Stanford, bringing deep hands-on knowledge of EVMs and node implementations. His open-source work on coreth, subnet-evm, and avalanchego demonstrates expertise in Ethereum-compatible tooling, genesis and airdrop mechanics, gas price oracle integration, mining preferences, and memory-optimizations for large airdrop datasets. Comfortable operating between product and protocol layers, he turns protocol-level complexity into pragmatic, deployable software and has a track record of shipping robust node and subnet features used by the Avalanche ecosystem.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
virtualmachine10
evm10
mining10
configuration-management10
go10
ethereum10
network-programming10
blockchain10
api9
api-doc9
json9
benchmark8
benchmarking8
avalanche8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ava-labs/subnet-evm
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Launch your own EVM as an Avalanche Subnet
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 266 reviews, 263 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's primary contribution involves initiating and integrating an airdrop framework within the Avalanche Subnet EVM project. This includes modifying the genesis configuration to include an airdrop hash and amount, and incorporating airdrop data to allocate funds to specific addresses upon genesis block creation. Furthermore, the user addressed memory usage concerns by freeing airdrop data in the backend and updated generated code files.
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ava-labs/coreth
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Code and wrapper to extract Ethereum blockchain functionalities without network/consensus, for building custom blockchain services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 647 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's contributions primarily involved implementing and refining core Ethereum-related functionalities within the coreth repository. Their work focused on integrating changes to the mining process, including setting block preferences, and updating the gas price oracle by fetching the required data. They also worked on refactoring code and handling edge cases.
consensusethereumavalancheblockchainevm
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