Elad Mallel
Pedasí District, Los Santos, Panama
Summary
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SeniorElad Mallel is a product-minded research engineer with a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams across fintech, consumer security, and Web3. He combines hands-on backend and mobile development (Java, Python, Android/iOS, Golang) with system architecture and product management, shipping integrations with credit bureaus and secure AWS deployments. A former engineering lead in Israeli intelligence (Unit 8200) and senior director at BillGuard/Prosper, he has led mission-critical data systems, complex cloud migrations, and InfoSec-driven integrations. More recently he has contributed to prominent open-source projects like Livepeer and the Nouns DAO monorepo, implementing robust governance and streaming reliability features. Now based in Panama, he’s exploring part-time roles that blend engineering, architecture and product leadership while co-founding a sustainable village project in Playa Venao. Colleagues describe him as someone who simplifies hard problems and empowers teams to deliver.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
solidity10
testing10
go10
ethereum10
smart-contracts10
video-streaming10
error-handling10
transcode9
openzeppelin9
http9
hardhat9
azure6
azure-blob-storage6
etag6
android6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
livepeer/go-livepeer
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Official Go implementation of the Livepeer protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 10 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Elad primarily focused on back-end development within the Livepeer protocol implementation. Their contributions involved optimizing the stream handling by implementing logic to stop streams upon job expiration. They also refactored the error handling for segment uploads, trimming HTTP error responses from the transcoder, and updating the error logging mechanism. The changes touch multiple files within the server directory and include test implementations, indicating a focus on improving the reliability of the live video streaming process.
golangethereumblockchainlivepeerbroadcasting
nounsDAO/nouns-monorepo
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 225 reviews, 293 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Elad focused on developing and testing the governance logic for a DAO within the Nouns ecosystem, implementing features to upgrade the DAO to V2. They wrote extensive tests for the DAO, especially related to upgradeability, governance config, and vote refund functionality. They also worked on features supporting the use of the new version of the descriptor as well as general improvements to the code base.
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