Elena Nadolinski
PM, Base at Iron Fish
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElena Nadolinski is a product-minded engineering leader and founder with 10 years of experience building backend systems, currently a PM for Base at Coinbase after the company acquired her Iron Fish team to accelerate privacy on Base. She founded and led Iron Fish, contributing core blockchain improvements—refactoring block sync, optimizing data structures, and packaging deployments via Docker—demonstrating deep systems and distributed-systems expertise. Prior roles at Airbnb, Tilt, and Microsoft show a pattern of shipping reliable infrastructure services (autocomplete search, notifications overhaul, Cortana features) across startups and large enterprises. Based in San Francisco, she blends hands-on backend engineering with product leadership, moving between shipping code and shaping privacy-focused product strategy. An understated strength is her ability to translate experimental research (Microsoft partnerships) into production features and scalable operational practices.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Russian
Github Skills (11)
data-structures10
rust10
go10
merkle-tree10
data-structure10
blockchain10
p2p10
cryptography9
testing9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
iron-fish/ironfish
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
A novel cryptocurrency focused on privacy and accessibility.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 14 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Elena primarily worked on improving the blockchain's core functionality. They refactored and optimized the block syncing process, including changes to how blocks are requested and added to the chain. They also modified the data structures and message handling related to block synchronization, incorporating improvements for efficiency and clarity. Additionally, they created a Docker package for ironfish-beta, and updated miner rewards.
privacyp2pblockchainfocusedcryptocurrency
iron-fish/landing_page
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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