Alon Elmaliah is a distributed-systems engineer and crypto practitioner with nine years of experience building scalable, security-conscious infrastructure and trading systems from core protocol stacks to user-facing wallets. As a co-founder and former CTO at a Tel Aviv fintech, he led the design of time-critical trading platforms handling hundreds of millions in volume while also developing DeFi and crypto security solutions. He cut his teeth as a core developer and research engineer at the IOTA Foundation, contributing notable backend optimizations to the IRI node and meaningful cryptographic and transaction-processing work in the popular iota.js library. Comfortable across hardware, low-level protocol work and frontend UX, he’s repeatedly bridged research and engineering to ship reliable, high-performance systems. Based in Tel Aviv with a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, he brings a blend of academic rigor, curiosity for cryptography, and hands-on open-source impact.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering at Tel Aviv University
Physics, Computer Science & Robotics., Physics, Computer Science & Robotics. at Ostrovsky High School, Ra'anana
Contributions:1 release, 230 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alon primarily contributed to the IOTA Reference Implementation by addressing concurrency issues and refining the system's efficiency. They made changes to the Node class, including fixing neighbor list concurrency issues and improving its readability. They also implemented several optimizations, such as reducing the milestone rescan interval, optimizing request handling, and adding a LRU cache to filter recent hashes, enhancing the node's performance.
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Alon's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the user interface of the IOTA wallet. They added UI elements for sending to used addresses, including modal windows and related UI logic. They also made changes to display attachment times in the history and removed UI elements related to "OldIota" and the transition UI. These changes suggest a focus on improving user experience and updating the wallet's visual components.
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