Duke Leto
Core Developer at MyHush
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDuke Leto is a seasoned core developer and founder with 24 years of engineering experience specializing in privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, decentralized exchange protocols, and cryptographic primitives. He advises and delivers custom development for Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash and other privacy coins, charging premium consulting rates paid in BTC/XMR, and has led core contributions to notable projects such as Zcash and Komodo. As founder of Leto Labs and a long-time contributor to open source (GitHub bio: Free + Open Source Citizen), he blends deep systems skills—Perl, Python, Linux, PostgreSQL—and test-driven engineering with protocol-level crypto work like zkSNARKs and delayed PoW. He has a track record of improving critical infrastructure and tooling—wallet/RPC fixes in Zcash, test and CI enhancements for CASH Music and Travis CI, and debugger improvements for the Parrot VM—showing attention to both correctness and developer experience. With an MS in Mathematics and a history of running community initiatives (founding the world’s first Git user group), he pairs rigorous academic reasoning with practical, production-grade software delivery. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate complex crypto research into deployable, well-tested code and operational workflows.
24 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mathematics, MS, Mathematics at University of Central Florida
German, Spanish, English
Github Skills (51)
json-rpc10
debugging10
api-rest10
debug10
programming-language10
wallet10
c-language10
event-handling10
python10
apidoc10
rakudo10
api-design10
restful-api10
zcash10
testing10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
parrot/parrot
Jul 2009 - Sep 2013
Parrot Virtual Machine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1184 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Duke primarily contributed to the Parrot Virtual Machine project by improving the debugger. Their work included enhancing the debugger's documentation, fixing bugs related to breakpoint setting and deletion, and adding functionalities like assigning to registers and printing registers. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the debugger's internal workings and its interaction with the virtual machine.
parrotvirtual-machine
cashmusic/platform
May 2011 - Mar 2012
A free and open platform giving all musicians access to tools that let them manage, promote, and sell their music online.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:486 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Duke primarily worked on improving the testing infrastructure of the platform project. Their commits reveal the conversion of existing tests to the SimpleTest framework, the addition of new test files, and the implementation of a test suite. They also integrated a code coverage tool, and made adjustments to the test suite to allow it to correctly pass and generate the correct status reports for the test infrastructure. The user also implemented a testing installer.
musiciansopen-platformlmschurchlet
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