Summary
Chris Anatalio is a Senior Backend Blockchain Engineer with 11+ years of software engineering experience and a strong track record building production-grade, cloud-native systems for both enterprise and Web3 platforms. He blends deep backend expertise in Java and reactive microservices with hands-on blockchain tooling—Solidity, Hardhat, Foundry, ethers.js—and has taught end-to-end smart contract workflows as a Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning content author. Chris has shipped developer-facing SDKs, CLI tooling, and Kubernetes-deployed services for organizations including ConsenSys, Stellar, and Uphold, and he automates developer environments and infrastructure with Devcontainers, Docker, and GitHub Actions. A US-educated veteran, he also mentors developer communities (Developer DAO, Polkadot Academy) and brings a practical emphasis on observability, CI/CD, and reproducible dev stacks that often goes unnoticed in profiles focused only on smart contract work.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Cohort 7(Bali), dApps Track, Cohort 7(Bali), dApps Track at Polkadot Blockchain Academy
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University
English