Georgios Konstantopoulos
Chief Technology Officer at Paradigm
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorgios Konstantopoulos is Chief Technology Officer and General Partner at Paradigm, combining 9 years of hands-on engineering with research and investment in crypto infrastructure. He focuses on mechanism design, MEV, layer 2 scaling, proof-of-stake and zk proofs, and actively hires engineers for Paradigm and its portfolio. A prolific open-source contributor, his work spans core projects like Uniswap v3-core, Optimism, reth, ethers-rs and Foundry, touching smart contracts, execution layers, P2P protocols and tooling. His deep technical highlights include building a recursive SNARK prover for Celo’s Ultralight-sync, implementing Plasma Cash and Delegated PoS on Tendermint, and improving groth16/Merkle implementations for snarkOS. Based in Thessaloniki, Greece, he blends academic-level protocol research (papers presented at MIT, Stanford and Devcon4) with production-grade consensus, client and audit experience.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8/10, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8/10 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Anatolia College
Greek, English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (59)
foundry10
contracts10
transaction10
consensus10
solidity10
keystore10
back-end-development10
testing10
evm10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
databases10
proofs10
proof10
elo10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
foundry-rs/forge-template
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Forkable template to get you started with Foundry's Forge
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 41 commits, 31 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Georgios primarily focused on adding and improving tests for the project. This involved writing unit tests for the smart contract's functionality, specifically testing the "Greeter" contract. The contributions included setting up testing infrastructure, such as using a temporary testnet and creating test deployment scripts. Additionally, the user refactored tests and utilized various tools to ensure the project's reliability and deployability.
foundryforge
gakonst/ethers-rs
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust. https://docs.rs/ethers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 995 reviews, 409 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Georgios's contributions primarily focus on the development of the ethers-rs library, a Rust implementation for Ethereum and Celo. Their work includes implementing various transaction types and adding functionality for creating and signing transactions using both legacy and EIP-1559 transaction types. Furthermore, they have improved the project's structure through refactoring, code organization, and the introduction of new modules for handling ledger signing and automatic key rotation.
ethereumrustblockchainceloweb3
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