Doug Chimento
Infrastructure Engineer at Undisclosed
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Chimento is an infrastructure and platform engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently managing cloud infrastructure with AI-assisted automation at Corsa while also serving as an SRE. He brings a multidisciplinary background from roles in backend, data, and security engineering at companies like AppsFlyer, Outbrain and Fidelity, and holds a BS in Math. An active Bitcoin Core contributor, Doug has added RPC improvements, configuration parsing utilities, tests, and documentation to one of the most prominent open-source cryptocurrency projects—evidence of deep systems and protocol-level understanding. Known for an “automate all the things” mindset, he combines practical engineering with IoT hacking and a curiosity-driven approach that surfaces useful tooling and observability improvements.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Math, BS Math at St. Lawrence University
Github Skills (8)
bitcoin10
c-language10
bitcoins10
cprogramming-language10
cryptography10
rpc9
unit-testing8
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 6 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Doug focused on improving the Bitcoin Core codebase by addressing various aspects. They removed unnecessary timing logs for the benchmarking of Callbacks. The user implemented utility functions to parse byte units, which are crucial for handling human-readable arguments in configuration settings. They also contributed to documentation and added a test related to the `maxuploadtarget` parameter, demonstrating their ability to contribute across different areas of the project. Additionally, they added functionality to the `getrawtransaction` RPC to include fees and prevout information, which shows a solid understanding of the underlying Bitcoin transaction structure.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
dougEfresh/toggl-test
May 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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