Conner Swann is an infrastructure and DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, automated systems for blockchain and cloud-native products from San Francisco. He’s led off-chain teams and engineered production-grade infrastructure—Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and secure signing systems—at companies that powered billion-dollar crypto flows and large-scale testnets. Conner founded Data Steward and benchmarks ZK solutions at Prooflab, blending entrepreneurial instincts with deep cryptographic infrastructure experience. Notable open-source work includes CI/CD and release automation for the Mina Protocol, adding macOS builds, Artifactory publishing and Docker automation. He’s drawn to hard reliability problems, especially where cryptography, automation, and multi-cloud deployments intersect.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northern Arizona University
Mina is a cryptocurrency protocol with a constant size blockchain, improving scaling while maintaining decentralization and security.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:2 releases, 87 commits, 77 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Conner primarily contributed to the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, focusing on automating builds, releases, and deployments for the Mina protocol project. Their work involved modifying CircleCI configuration files to include macOS builds, configure artifact releases to Artifactory, and automate the deb package creation and publishing process. The user also created scripts to manage docker builds and releases, showcasing a strong focus on infrastructure and deployment automation. Their changes included modifying the build process and integrating tools like JFrog CLI for artifact management.
Contributions:277 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
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