Dan Gershony
CTO at SOFTCHAINS LTD
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Gershony is a seasoned CTO and hands-on developer with over a decade of expertise in the Microsoft stack, .NET/C#, and Azure, who combines architecture-level thinking with deep blockchain and cryptography experience. He has founded and built coinvault.io and led blockchain efforts at Stratis and Blockcore, contributing critical consensus and wallet integrations to well-known open-source projects like StratisBitcoinFullNode, WalletWasabi, and NBitcoin. Comfortable across backend, microservices, and cloud-native patterns, he pairs production-grade security (WIF/JWT/SAML/OAuth2) with practical scalability choices using Azure storage, Docker, and pub/sub command processing. A pragmatic team player and self-learner based in London, he also added real-world multi-coin support to the popular BIP39 tool—demonstrating an uncommon blend of protocol-level insight and application-focused delivery.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering at ruppinPractical engineer, Software - graduated with honors, Practical engineer, Software - graduated with honors at Ruppin Academic Center
Spanish, Danish, Hebrew
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Github Skills (31)
network-configuration10
consensus10
javascript10
ropc10
validations10
drpc10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
validation10
bitcoin-core10
netframework10
validating10
rpc10
procedures10
blockchain10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode
Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
Bitcoin full node in C#
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 571 commits, 1101 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dan's contributions primarily focus on the backend logic and functionality of a Bitcoin full node, specifically related to ensuring the proper handling and validation of transactions. The user implemented a rule to address the validation of blocks to ensure they are valid. The user was involved in developing and implementing consensus-critical components for validating block headers in the PoW (Proof-of-Work) based chain.
full-nodeblockchaincsharpcryptocurrencybitcoin
MetacoSA/NBitcoin
Oct 2016 - Nov 2020
Comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the `nbitcoin` library, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. They addressed issues like the magic byte duplication bug, and added the `MinimumChainWork` property to the consensus parameters. The user also refactored code, improved test coverage, and introduced changes related to setting maximum connection limits for the node server. Furthermore, the user integrated the BIP44 coin type into the consensus parameters.
dotnetnet-frameworkc-sharpcryptocurrencycsharp
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