Chris Pacia
Founder, Lead Developer at Illium
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Pacia is a founder and lead developer with 12 years of experience building decentralized and backend-first systems from Manchester, NH. He led backend engineering at OB1 and maintained the BCHD fork of core blockchain libraries, demonstrating deep expertise in cryptocurrency infrastructure and distributed systems. As founder of Illium, he combines hands-on development with product leadership, shipping robust server-side services and pragmatic front-end fixes when needed. His open-source contributions include refactoring database layers and adding sales/chat APIs for OpenBazaar and improving node selection and protocol reliability in a Python Kademlia DHT implementation. Comfortable across the stack, he’s known for turning complex protocol and data challenges into maintainable code and shipping interoperable APIs. His MBA background complements his technical instincts with strategic and operational perspective.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Rutgers Business SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
electron10
distributed-systems10
user-interface10
kademlia10
asyncio10
api10
database-design10
nodejs10
data-structure9
networking9
css9
backbonejs9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar-Server
Jun 2015 - Sep 2017
(Deprecated) OpenBazaar 1.0 Server daemon for communication with OpenBazaar-Client
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 874 commits, 138 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on refactoring the database layer and adding functionality for storing and retrieving data related to followers and sales within the OpenBazaar-Server. They made changes to the existing contract structures, including the addition of optional fields and methods. The user also implemented several API calls, including get_sales and get_chat_messages.
daemonopenbazaarcommunicationserver
OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar-Client
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
(DEPRECATED) Front-end Electron application for talking with the OpenBazaar-Server daemon
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end of the OpenBazaar client application, focusing on bug fixes and feature additions. Their work includes addressing incorrect imports, fixing BTC amount formatting issues, and resolving API calls related to marking notifications as read. They also implemented a new feature by adding a categories drop-down to the store tab and making several related code fixes and updates.
reactelectronp2pjavascriptdaemon
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