Danil Lugovskoi is a senior software engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building scalable, asynchronous backend systems and microservice architectures. He specializes in Python (asyncio) and Rust, with deep experience in crypto, payments, security, and blockchain integrations. At Matter Labs he contributed core back-end logic to zkSync, working on on-chain interactions, event factories and transaction serialization for a prominent Ethereum scaling project. Previously he led backend development for exchanges and payment platforms, designing secure, SGX- and TPM-integrated components and a Rust jsonrpc library. Comfortable as the sole backend engineer on projects, he combines hands-on implementation with architectural decision-making and cross-team leadership. Colleagues rely on him for solving complex distributed-systems problems and shipping production-grade crypto infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachalor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Bachalor, Computer Science, Bachelor at Far Eastern Federal University
zkSync: trustless scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 1464 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Danil's commits focused on core logic within the zkSync project, primarily related to blockchain interactions and on-chain functionality. Their work involved the implementation of functionalities such as factory events and modifications to data storage. In addition, the user made updates to serialization and deserialization for different types of transactions.
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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