Aleksandr Logunov
Software Engineer at near
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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RockstarAleksandr Logunov is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in back-end systems and protocol engineering, currently based in Dubai. As an ICPC finalist and active open-source contributor, he has made notable contributions to the NEAR Protocol's reference client, implementing transaction size validation, a feature flag, and upgrades to account deletion semantics. He brings deep practical experience in distributed ledger internals—flat storage, trie cache, and compilation/refactoring fixes—demonstrating a careful balance of correctness and performance. Comfortable in high-assurance, consensus-adjacent code, he pairs competitive programming roots with production-grade engineering to ship robust protocol features.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
data-structures10
rust10
data-structure10
blockchain10
trie10
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
near/nearcore
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1119 reviews, 1757 commits, 554 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the NEAR Protocol's core client (`nearcore`). Their contributions included implementing features to limit transaction sizes, involving the addition of a new feature flag, transaction size validation logic, and related tests. They also worked on upgrading the `DeleteAccount` action to generate regular transfers, and several compilation and refactoring fixes related to flat storage and trie cache.
rustethereumblockchainnearprotocolwebassembly
Longarithm/nearcore
Feb 2022 - Apr 2025
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Contributions:2 PRs, 4375 pushes, 520 branches in 3 years 2 months
ethereumblockchainnear-protocolreference-clientnear
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