Andrei Ivasko
Self Employed
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Ivasko is an independent research engineer based in Dubai with nine years of hands-on experience building and hardening distributed systems, consensus protocols, and blockchain clients. He has shipped production-grade work across Cosmos and Ethereum ecosystems—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like cosmos-sdk and Prysm—focused on reliability, testing, and protocol-level correctness. At Fantom he maintained the go-opera node, added protocol upgrades and P2P improvements, and prototyped Erigon integration, demonstrating both low-level systems skills and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. His background spans backend microservices, cloud-native tooling, and security-minded smart-contract development, and he brings a persistent learning mindset evident in long-term OSS contributions and cross-chain tooling experience.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Baltic Fishing Fleet State AcademyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
tendermint10
cosmos-sdk10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
grpc9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
comet8
cryptocurrency8
protocol-buffers8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/cosmos-sdk
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:361 reviews, 9 commits, 19 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the `cosmos-sdk` repository. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to keyring import and tendermint subcommands, and adding changelog functionalities. The user also implemented code changes related to query functionality in the `x/gov`, `x/staking`, and `x/distribution` modules. Additionally, they were involved in adding client config subcommands and integrating environment variables to command flags.
golangcosmos-sdkblockchainchainscryptocurrency
prysmaticlabs/prysm
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 28 PRs, 114 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on standardizing parameters, refactoring, and improving code quality across several Go packages within the Prysm repository. Their work involved modifying test files and core functionalities related to the beacon chain, particularly concerning validator operations and state transitions. The commits show the user's involvement in integrating safe math operations and implementing RPC health checks, indicating a focus on system stability and reliability. These modifications contribute to the ongoing development of the Ethereum proof-of-stake implementation.
golangconsensusstakeethereumproof-of-stake
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