Cory Schwartz
Software Engineer at Protocol Labs
San Bruno, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarCory Schwartz is a software engineer with a decade of experience focused on backend systems and DevOps, currently contributing at Protocol Labs from San Bruno, CA. He works on production-grade distributed systems and has hands-on expertise in Go, demonstrated by contributions to major open-source projects like Filecoin's lotus and libp2p. Cory has improved core tooling—adding genesis CAR generation and network init automation for lotus—and strengthened libp2p reliability by fixing static-analysis issues and stabilizing tests. His work spans shipping release artifacts (including AppImage integration) to automating infrastructure setup and hardening deployments. Comfortable moving between implementation, QA, and ops, he combines pragmatic engineering with an eye for long-term maintainability. An under-the-radar strength is his knack for turning static analysis findings into durable quality improvements across large, protocol-focused codebases.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
golang10
debug10
ipfs10
filecoin10
go10
networking10
blockchain10
libp2p10
testing10
devops9
bash9
docker8
cicd8
dockers8
github-ci4
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/lotus
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 258 commits, 69 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Cory contributed to the `lotus-seed` command, adding functionality to generate lotus blocks. They implemented a `genesisCarCmd` command to write a genesis CAR file. Additionally, the user updated the packer setup scripts, adding functionality for mainnet and other network configurations, including the setup of the firewall and the enabling of services, and deployment of network init scripts. The user also integrated the appimage on release, adding it to the build and publish scripts.
golangipfsfilecoinblockchainfilecoin-protocol
libp2p/go-libp2p
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
libp2p implementation in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to fixing code quality issues identified by static analysis tools (go vet, staticcheck) across multiple files within the libp2p Go implementation. Their work involved addressing potential bugs and code style issues, as well as adding and modifying tests to improve the overall reliability of the project. The user also removed flaky tests and made improvements to the test suite.
golangipfsp2ppeer-to-peerorbitdb
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