Darioush Jalali
Staff Engineer at Near One
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarioush Jalali is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust backend systems and distributed infrastructure, currently focused on blockchain and crypto platforms. He’s driven practical improvements at organizations from Lyft and Tableau to Ava Labs and Near One, shipping reliability, graceful shutdowns, and database optimizations in production nodes. An active open-source contributor, he’s made substantive back-end contributions to high-profile projects like go-ethereum, BNB Chain, and Avalanche repositories—optimizing trie performance, hardening EVM precompiles, and simplifying atomic transaction tooling. His early work porting large C++ codebases to Linux and fixing long-standing memory and threading bugs reflects a knack for untangling legacy complexity. Pragmatic and hands-on, he favors clear code, strong tests, and incremental refactors that reduce technical debt while improving systems’ observability and resilience. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs deep systems expertise with a taste for “building cool shit” that actually works at scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of WashingtonRoshdMaster of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
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Github Skills (27)
apidoc10
trie10
testing10
evm10
databases10
system-design10
networking10
go10
api10
avalanche10
ethereum10
blockchain10
database-management10
error-handling10
precompiled10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ava-labs/subnet-evm
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Launch your own EVM as an Avalanche Subnet
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1175 reviews, 144 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Darioush primarily contributed to the core logic and internal workings of the Avalanche Subnet EVM project. Their work focused on improving comments and type checks within precompile functions, indicating a focus on enhancing code clarity and robustness. The user also made several refactoring and cleanup commits within the codebase. Furthermore, the user was involved in enabling and disabling precompiles through upgradeBytes, as well as the ports of commit locking from coreth and statesync features for the project.
avalancheethereumblockchainevmsmart-contracts
ava-labs/coreth
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Code and wrapper to extract Ethereum blockchain functionalities without network/consensus, for building custom blockchain services.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 592 reviews, 378 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Darioush primarily focused on the backend development aspect of the project. Their contributions include cleaning up, adding comments to, and simplifying the test codec for the atomic transaction repository. Additionally, they were involved in removing a height index and refactoring the code.
consensusethereumavalancheblockchainevm
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