Aspyn Palatnick
Senior Software Engineer at OpenSea
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAspyn Palatnick is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-throughput, production systems across web3, AR, and bioinformatics. Based in the New York City area, they architected NFT metadata and blockchain event pipelines at OpenSea that process millions of items and events per day and previously co-created AR placement infrastructure at Meta serving hundreds of thousands of users. A hands-on distributed-systems engineer, Aspyn contributed to py-libp2p by integrating a kademlia DHT and building peer metadata and peer store interfaces for Ethereum’s networking stack. Their background spans applied research—publishing an iOS DNA-analysis app used in classrooms—to patent-backed blockchain interoperability work that helped seed Hyperledger Cactus. Curious about emerging tech, they combine deep systems engineering with a habit of shipping research-quality projects into production.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Networked and Social Systems Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Networked and Social Systems Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at University of PennsylvaniaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at King's College LondonHigh School Diploma, 4.0 (unweighted), High School Diploma, 4.0 (unweighted) at Cold Spring Harbor High School
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Github Skills (12)
python10
kademlia10
libp2p10
networking9
asynchronous8
asyncio8
async8
autocomplete6
css6
material-ui6
javascript6
react6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
libp2p/py-libp2p
Oct 2018 - May 2019
The Python implementation of the libp2p networking stack 🐍 [under development]
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:189 commits, 28 PRs, 147 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Aspyn's primary contribution involved replacing the kad-dht implementation with bmuller/kademlia, indicating a focus on the core networking stack functionality. This included modifications to the `network.py` and `crawling.py` files, suggesting involvement in implementing or integrating a distributed hash table (DHT) for peer discovery and data storage within the libp2p networking stack. The commits also involved the introduction of interfaces for peer metadata and implementing a peer store, solidifying the user's engagement with the project's core components.
pythonpython-implementationp2pnetworkingunder-development
stuckinaboot/farcaster-frames
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
Examples of farcaster frames
Contributions:1 review, 28 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 months
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