Darius Parvin
Software Engineer at Botanix
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarius Parvin is a software engineer based in Berkeley with seven years of hands-on experience building Bitcoin and Lightning tooling, privacy-preserving layer-2 protocols, and backend microservices. He has worked at Bolt Labs developing zkChannels, contributed to BitGo's JavaScript SDK by adding external signing and core wallet support, and helped ship Lightning integrations and cross-border remittance services written in Go and Java. Trained as a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, he brings rigorous experimental and data-analysis skills to protocol design and developer education, having authored an open-source Jupyter-based bitcoin course at Chaincode Labs. Darius pairs deep crypto protocol experience with practical backend engineering across gRPC, Kafka, and cloud microservices, and he actively enjoys translating complex Bitcoin mechanics into accessible teaching and tooling.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, PhD Cognitive Neuroscience at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity College London
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Github Skills (10)
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
expressjs10
apidoc10
configuration-management9
testing8
ipywidgets6
jupyter-notebook6
python6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
BitGo/BitGoJS
Jan 2022 - May 2022
BitGo JavaScript SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 36 commits, 29 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Darius primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the BitGo Express SDK. Their work included implementing new features related to external signing, specifically incorporating feature flags and integrating external signer URLs. The user also added signing functionality for external signer mode and handled private key retrieval from a specified file path and environment variables. Furthermore, the user made changes to the core wallet, transaction, and signing-related files to accommodate and support the external signing feature.
javascriptblockchainsdkjavascript-sdkbitgo
boltlabs-inc/lnd
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Contributions:408 commits, 9 PRs, 204 pushes in 1 year 4 months
daemonlightningblockchainwalletcryptocurrency
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