Arkadiy Paronyan
Software Engineer at Parity Technologies
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolArkadiy Paronyan is a Berlin-based software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and hardening distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure. He has deep backend expertise in Rust and C/C++, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as Parity’s Ethereum and Polkadot implementations and the Solidity compiler, where he worked on core consensus, networking, RPC servers, and cross-platform build and debugging improvements. Previously a senior architect and lead developer, Arkadiy has led teams, designed CI pipelines and implemented low-level storage and syncing algorithms—skills that surface in his work on in-memory clients and custom graph database engines. Comfortable bridging research-level protocol work and production engineering, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance, robustness, and cross-platform operability. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he combines deep protocol-level changes (message passing, block structure) with practical tooling improvements (RPC async I/O, MSVC build fixes), making him effective across the full lifecycle of complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Taganrog State University of Radio Engineering
English, Russian
Github Skills (35)
asynchronous10
json-rpc10
substrate10
consensus10
c-language10
solidity10
clientside10
async10
testing10
networking10
hyper10
front-end-development10
ethereum10
cryptography10
blockchain10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openethereum/parity-ethereum
Nov 2015 - Aug 2018
The fast, light, and robust client for Ethereum-like networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 releases, 1396 commits, 1302 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Arkadiy's contributions focused on implementing and refactoring the blockchain network's underlying logic. This included introducing new functionality for the network and code around data transfers. These changes involved modifying core components like message passing and block structure of the blockchain.
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paritytech/substrate
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:434 reviews, 281 commits, 361 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Arkadiy's contributions focused on implementing networking and in-memory client functionalities within the Substrate blockchain platform. They worked on core infrastructure components, including creating networking crate drafts, developing syncing algorithms, implementing in-memory client backends, and writing related tests. Additionally, the user made code refactoring changes such as renaming transactions and removing debugging print statements.
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