Daniel Hornik
Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer at Gelato
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolDaniel Hornik is a blockchain infrastructure engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient distributed systems, now running L2/L3 rollups on Optimism and Arbitrum Orbit at Gelato. He combines deep DevOps and SRE skills—Kubernetes, Golang, CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible—with smart contract and EVM expertise to both deploy and extend production chains. Previously he ran orchestration and monitoring platforms at Vega Protocol, managed multiple EVM nodes and testnets, and automated complex network start-ups and testing bots. Comfortable migrating legacy systems to cloud-native stacks, he has a pragmatic history of reducing costs, automating releases, and stabilizing live services across AWS and on-prem environments. Based in Krakow, he blends systems-level engineering with Solidity work, uniquely bridging low-level infrastructure reliability and blockchain feature delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.) Informatyka, Inżynier (Inż.) Informatyka at Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszkielectronics Elektronika przemysłowa/technik, electronics Elektronika przemysłowa/technik at Zespół Szkół Elektryczno-Mechanicznych w Nowym Sączu
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Github Skills (169)
vega10
cryptocurrency10
coder10
p2p10
bitcoin10
css10
cryptography10
javascript9
golang9
terraform9
network-protocol9
amazon-web-services9
docker9
blockchain9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
daniel1302/help-stuff
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
Some links and commands I use everyday
Contributions:168 commits, 1 PR, 155 pushes in 3 years 3 months
everydaypythonlinks
vegaprotocol/vega-health-check
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 14 PRs in 10 months
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