Erin Swenson-healey
Staff Software Engineer, Robotics at Hadrian
California, United States
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Top SchoolErin Swenson-healey is a Staff Software Engineer in robotics with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and low-level integrations, currently based in California. She blends deep systems engineering—demonstrated by significant contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Filecoin and libp2p—with a knack for turning business requirements into reliable, production-ready software. Her work on Go/Rust FFI, disk-backed sector stores, and pluggable DHT protocols shows real expertise in cross-language interfaces, distributed storage, and protocol design. A bilingual communicator (English/Spanish) and former Peace Corps volunteer, she pairs technical rigor with user-focused collaboration and mentoring experience across startups and enterprise teams. Colleagues rely on her to stretch performance boundaries while keeping architectures testable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Certificado de finalización Spanish, Certificado de finalización Spanish at Centro de Enseñanza Para Extranjeros - UNAMBachelor’s Degree Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration at University of Washington Bothell
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (27)
testing10
ipfs10
cffi10
libp2p10
kademlia10
filecoin10
go10
foreign10
ffi10
blockchain10
rust10
dht10
json9
c119
c179
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/venus
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Filecoin Full Node Implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:175 commits, 149 PRs, 485 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily contributed to the development of the `venus` repository, a Filecoin full node implementation written in Go. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality of the chain list and daemon commands. They fixed bugs in JSON output, added new features to the daemon command, and refactored unit tests. Furthermore, the user implemented testing frameworks for the dag and chain commands and also added tests for the types package.
golangfilecoinfull-nodeblockchainvenus
filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Proofs for Filecoin in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:182 commits, 168 PRs, 514 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily worked on implementing core functionality for the Filecoin proofs project. Their contributions included generating C headers for the Rust API, modifying functions to be callable from C using cgo, and refactoring code to support strings instead of function pointers. Further development involved exposing errors through FFI, adding an unseal operation, and integrating a disk-backed sector store.
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