Chinonso Okoli
Software Engineer III at Meta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChinonso Okoli is a Software Engineer III based in the UK with eight years of experience building robust, performance-focused infrastructure and crypto systems. He has a strong foundation in data structures and algorithms and a track record of shipping production-grade tooling—from creating Erigon’s DEVNET test-suite for Ethereum RPCs to accelerating Rust-based Ethereum block builders and cryptographic services. At companies like Erigon, StarkWare, and Arch Network he has driven improvements in testing, performance, and protocol-level crypto (including a demo and DKG for Weighted Schnorr Threshold Signatures). Now at Meta working on backbone and network infrastructure, he combines low-level systems engineering with pragmatic product thinking. Chinonso pairs research curiosity with hands-on delivery—he swaps core crypto libraries to enable new architectures and reduced build times, showing a preference for practical, portable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of LagosSenior School Leaving Certificate (SSCE) Sciences, Senior School Leaving Certificate (SSCE) Sciences at Command Day Secondary School OshodiMaster of Science - MS Advanced Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Advanced Computer Science at Birmingham City University
English, Igbo
Github Skills (5)
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
json-rpc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erigontech/erigon
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 75 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chinonso primarily contributed to the devnet test suite for the Erigon project, implementing and refactoring testing functionalities for various Ethereum RPC methods. They added and tested the eth_getBalance, eth_sendRawTransaction and eth_getTransactionCount methods in the devnet tool. Additionally, they introduced EIP1559 transaction testing, enabling the evaluation of fee market dynamics. The commits also include improvements to the testing framework and error handling.
ethereumsolidityfrontierblockchain
leonardchinonso/dsa
Apr 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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