Adrian Lanzafame
Founder at Viatika
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolAdrian Lanzafame is a founder and experienced software engineer with 11 years building distributed systems, site reliability tooling, and developer-facing CLIs across the web3 and IPFS/Filecoin ecosystems. He has driven observability and performance work—adding Prometheus/OpenCensus metrics and tracing to major Go projects like IPFS (kubo) and Filecoin Lotus—and contributed backend improvements to widely used open-source repos. Adrian has led SRE initiatives at Protocol Labs including consolidating monitoring platforms and migrating 16 million customer files to web3.storage, and has built production tooling for Filecoin Storage Providers at GLIF and Holon. He combines hands-on engineering (Go, DevOps, Kubernetes, eBPF, Prometheus) with product-focused features such as onboarding CLIs and accounting systems for storage operations. Based on a dual background in computer science and geoscience from QUT, he brings analytical rigor and an operator’s mindset to solve complex infrastructure problems. He’s now leading Viatika while continuing quality engineering at the Filecoin Foundation, blending founder-level vision with deep open-source credibility.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Major in Computer Science and Major in Geoscience, Bachelor of Information Technology Major in Computer Science and Major in Geoscience at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)QCE, QCE at Corinda State High School
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Github Skills (32)
data-collection10
command-line-interface10
ipfs10
go10
prometheus10
filecoin10
blockchain10
opencensus10
command-line10
collections10
metric10
api-design9
devops9
concurrency8
apidoc8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
Pinset orchestration for IPFS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 112 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on enhancing the `ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster` repository by adding features and improving functionality related to pinning and unpinning content within the IPFS cluster. The commits involve adding a `--no-status` flag to the `pin add/rm` commands, which skips status calls and improves command execution speed. Moreover, the user implemented several improvements, including the addition of a `WaitFor` utility function, and the refactoring of code, leading to optimizations and the resolution of potential issues.
ipfsipfs-clusterlibp2p
ipfs/kubo
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
IPFS implementation in Go: a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data, with a CLI, HTTP Gateway, and RPC API
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on integrating Prometheus metrics for monitoring the IPFS implementation. Their contributions included adding OpenCensus metrics for QUIC, registering metrics within the HTTP server, and modifying the gateway handler to record latency. They also updated the dependencies, added scraping endpoints, and adjusted configuration related to the Prometheus metrics. This work indicates a focus on observability and performance analysis of the IPFS project.
cligoipfsrpc
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