Connor Daly
Engineering Lead at The Friendship Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Daly is a Chief Technology Officer and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling secure, tokenized marketplaces and fintech products across crypto, cybersecurity, and startups. At CruTrade he leads a distributed engineering team, architects token and marketplace systems handling significant liquidity, and sits in the room on strategy and fundraising. A former Staff Engineer at Ava Labs and contributor to prominent Avalanche projects, he brings practical expertise in EVM subnet testing and developer-facing docs that improve reliability and onboarding. He also founded consumer fintech and social-systems ventures—IceBlock and The Friendship Engineer—where he applies systems-thinking to personal finance and human connection. Trained in data science (Johns Hopkins) and computer science (Cornell), he blends rigorous research roots with hands-on engineering and product delivery. Beyond code, he frames technical problems through social and organizational design, turning relationships into repeatable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Cornell University
German
Github Skills (16)
doc10
testing10
hardhat10
cl10
command-line-interface10
solidity10
avalanche10
documentation10
command-line10
cli10
web3js9
markdown-it9
markdown9
evm9
blockchain8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ava-labs/subnet-evm
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Launch your own EVM as an Avalanche Subnet
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 43 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Connor added unit and solidity tests to the project. The changes include modifications to the `hardhat.config.ts` file, which suggests the user is familiar with the Hardhat testing framework and likely involved in setting up or modifying testing configurations. The user's contributions focus on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the quality of the codebase.
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ava-labs/builders-hub
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Avalanche Builders Hub
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:78 reviews, 9 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Connor primarily contributed to the project by refactoring and adding documentation. They made significant changes to the `sidebars.js` file, restructuring and adding new sections related to "How to Use Avalanche-CLI" and "Subnet Lifecycle." They also added a new tutorial for creating custom subnets and a troubleshooting document for the Avalanche CLI, demonstrating a focus on improving the usability and clarity of the documentation.
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