Anton Puhach
Software Engineer at Near One
Oberiberg, Schwyz, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Puhach is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable back-end systems across trading, cloud analytics, consumer travel, and blockchain infrastructure. He has held roles at IMC Trading, Databricks, Meta, and Booking.com and now contributes to NEAR Protocol at Near One, focusing on performance-sensitive Rust code such as trie prefetching and database range removals. Anton’s work shows a strong emphasis on code quality and correctness—evidenced by refactors and clippy fixes in a prominent open-source repo—paired with practical optimizations for large-scale data retrieval. Based in Switzerland, he combines an applied mathematics background with hands-on systems engineering, making him adept at turning complex algorithms into production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English
Github Skills (6)
nearprotocol10
rust10
blockchain10
trie10
database-management9
webassembly8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
near/nearcore
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 836 reviews, 26 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on refactoring and improving code quality within the NEAR Protocol's core codebase. Their contributions involved fixing clippy warnings, which indicate a focus on code correctness and style. They also implemented improvements to the trie prefetching mechanism, likely to optimize the performance of data retrieval and storage operations. Furthermore, they added functionality to remove a range of keys in the database.
nearprotocolblockchainrustwebassembly
pugachAG/Configs
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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