Conor Scott
Blockchain Engineer at ConorTech
Champoléon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolConor Scott is a blockchain engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-scale crypto payment systems, smart contracts, and trading automation that have processed billions in transactions. Based in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, he blends rigorous QA and test-automation expertise from contributions to Bitcoin Core and Peercoin with backend engineering on Core Lightning, where he improved RPCs, mempool tests, and peer/funding visibility. He has led security and governance models for tokenized assets and merchant payment platforms, and brings practical DevOps and systems design skills honed at Clevertech and Johns Hopkins APL. A mathematician by training with a master’s in applied math, Conor pairs formal rigor with production-grade engineering. Notably, he’s an ongoing open-source contributor to seminal Bitcoin projects and lived the Chaincode Labs hacker-resident experience, reflecting deep protocol-level knowledge and a long-term commitment to Bitcoin.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Virginia TechJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (25)
c-language10
back-end-development10
python10
lightning-network10
testing10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
c1110
pool10
functional-testing10
c1710
cryptocurrency10
rpc10
mpo10
backend10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 96 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Conor primarily contributed to the testing framework of the Bitcoin Core project. Their work involved modifying and creating functional tests, particularly focused on testing mempool behavior, block validation, and REST interface interactions. They updated tests to use block weight instead of block size and added checks for parent/child transaction relationships within the mempool. These contributions aimed at ensuring the correctness and robustness of Bitcoin Core's transaction handling and block processing logic.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
ElementsProject/lightning
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 17 PRs, 76 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Conor contributed to the core Lightning Network implementation, focusing on bug fixes, RPC enhancements, and code refactoring. They updated test mocks, added peer stats to the `getinfo` RPC, and moved the `getinfo` implementation for better organization. Their contributions also included adding funding allocation details to the `listpeers` command and making improvements to the `pylightning` plugin.
core-lightningfocusinglightningspecperformance
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