Danyal Prout
Software Engineer at Coinbase
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanyal Prout is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems across fintech and developer platforms, currently contributing to Base at Coinbase in Austin. He has deep experience in data infrastructure and distributed services from multi-year work at Bloomberg and has moved into high-performance blockchain scaling at Paradigm and Coinbase, contributing to the prominent Optimism project by upgrading its engine API and adding withdrawals and Fjord upgrade support. Comfortable across databases, search stacks (Solr), and blockchain node tooling, he combines production-grade systems design with hands-on API and migration work. Collected experience across startups and large enterprises gives him a pragmatic approach to evolving complex platforms while maintaining compatibility and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (12)
autoscaling10
scale10
go10
api10
webapi10
opt10
apidoc10
ethereum10
blockchain10
optim10
scaling10
rollupjs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-optimism/optimism
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Optimism is Ethereum, scaled.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 29 PRs, 62 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Danyal's contributions primarily involve migrating and updating the engine API from version 1 to version 2. This includes modifying existing API calls for new features, as well as adding support for withdrawals. Additionally, the user updated the codebase to handle the new features and configurations related to the Fjord upgrade, ensuring compatibility and proper function. These changes indicate a strong understanding of the core components and the evolution of the Ethereum scaling solution.
rollupl2-scalingovmethereumblockchain
danyalprout/replayor
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:9 reviews, 13 PRs, 28 pushes in 9 months
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