Almog De Paz
Core Developer at Freelance (Self employed)
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAlmog De Paz is a core protocol engineer with nine years building distributed systems and consensus-layer software, currently advancing Chia Net while consulting as a blockchain architect. He led consensus and synchronization engineering at Spacemesh and has deep hands-on experience in low-level p2p messaging—evidenced by substantive contributions to the go-spacemesh node that introduced a MessageWrapper and refined request/response fields. Comfortable across backend systems from robotics to security and data platforms, he blends protocol design with pragmatic implementation in Go. Based in Tel Aviv, he pairs an Information Systems Engineering degree with operational rigor honed as an intelligence analyst, bringing both discipline and curiosity to decentralization challenges.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information systems engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information systems engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (7)
communication-protocol10
protocols10
go10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
blockchain10
p2p10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spacemeshos/go-spacemesh
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Go Implementation of the Spacemesh protocol full node. 💾⏰💪
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:418 commits, 227 PRs, 1169 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Almog's contributions primarily involve modifying the `p2p/pb/message.pb.go` file, indicating a focus on the protocol's message structure. The changes suggest improvements to the data structure related to communications protocol and messaging for this blockchain implementation. The addition of `MessageWrapper` and inclusion of fields like `Req`, `ReqID` and `Payload` with changes across multiple commits suggests a significant contribution to the low-level communication layer of the project.
gogolangp2pblockchainconsensus
almogdepaz/Veil
Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:7 PRs, 56 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
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