Augustus C
Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAugustus C is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-throughput, resilient systems across infrastructure, product, and blockchain domains. Currently at Chainlink Labs, he contributed backend refactors to the widely used Chainlink oracle core—improving EVM transaction management and confirmation flows. Previously at Peloton he scaled services handling billions of daily events and cut leaderboard latency 10x while reducing CPU by 3x, and built tooling for large-scale load testing and DB migrations. He has hands-on experience in Solidity and Ethereum security from a Macro fellowship and maintains a public portfolio of projects and audits. His background blends electrical engineering research and cloud-scale backend development, with a knack for squeezing efficiency out of distributed systems. Based in New York, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an interest in security and high-integrity open source work.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Startup School, Startup School at Y CombinatorWeb Development, Web Development at Horizons School of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesBachelor’s Degree, Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rutgers University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
golang10
go10
postgresql10
ethereum10
blockchain10
sql9
database-management9
oracle8
oracles8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:198 reviews, 57 PRs, 174 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Augustus primarily contributed to the `core/chains/evm/txmgr` and `core/chains/evm/eth_confirmer` packages, refactoring the SQL-based transaction manager. This included moving SQL to Txmgr ORM and implementing methods for managing and fetching receipts, as well as confirming transactions. These changes involved updating database queries and implementing new functionality within the core transaction management system. Additionally, the user made changes to the eth resender and eth confirmer to improve its functionality.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
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