Antonio Dropulić
Self Employed at Freelance
Split, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolAntonio Dropulić is a Rust-focused software engineer with five years of professional experience building backend systems for embedded, traffic, and blockchain domains. His contributions to the high-profile Polkadot node project include work on relay strategy, consensus integrations, and improving code quality by unifying error enums and fixing clippy issues—demonstrating care for maintainability at protocol scale. He has moved between startups and corporates, shipping production Rust at Kapsch TrafficCom and Blockhouse after early roles in automotive and game studios. Based in Split, Croatia, he now works freelance, favoring elegant, high-quality solutions and pragmatic engineering. Colleagues can expect a developer who pairs deep technical focus on Rust with hands-on experience in distributed consensus and debugging complex runtime integrations. An often-overlooked strength is his habit of surfacing small tooling and logging improvements (e.g., Beefy debug logs) that make large systems easier to operate.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
120 ECTS, 120 ECTS at Sveučilište u Splitu
Github Skills (14)
parity10
cumulus10
substrate10
error-handling10
webclient10
nodejs10
polkadot-js10
rust10
polkadot10
nodes10
clientside10
blockchain10
consensus9
dependency-management8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/polkadot
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Polkadot Node Implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
Contributions summary:Antonio primarily contributed to the back-end implementation of the Polkadot node. Their work involved modifying core functionalities, including the relay strategy and consensus mechanisms. They addressed code quality issues by fixing clippy issues and unifying error enums. They also integrated Beefy with the Rialto and Millau runtimes and worked on setting up Beefy debug logs.
polkadotparityblockchainrustnode
antonio-dropulic/tmmt
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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