Eugene Gostkin
Software Engineer at pinely
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Gostkin is a software engineer and lead with nine years of experience building high-load distributed systems, backend services, and blockchain infrastructure, currently working in Amsterdam. He has led multi-location teams and shipped core web3 tooling—Cardano Rust/WASM SDKs, cross-chain bridges, and a decentralized Cardano indexer—while optimizing low-level concurrency and UTxO selection strategies used in production. His background spans fintech and trading systems at WorldQuant, large-scale messaging at Chatfuel, and smart-contract performance work that achieved a 10x validation speedup, reflecting a blend of practical optimization and protocol design. A former MIPT instructor in concurrency and distributed computing, he brings deep academic grounding to real-world engineering and developer mentorship. Notably, he conceived a thread-safe, blockchain-optimized events storage that won community funding, demonstrating an ability to turn research-grade ideas into funded, production-ready components.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
SkyDeck accelerator Batch 13, SkyDeck accelerator Batch 13 at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Big Data Infrastructure, Computer Science, Big Data Infrastructure, Computer Science at Yandex School of Data Analysis
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (50)
cardano10
blockchain10
interpreter9
plutus9
ada9
backend9
rust8
compiler8
logic8
database8
specification8
sql8
indexer8
codegen8
data-format8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gostkin/gostkin.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
dcSpark/dcspark-core
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:72 reviews, 49 PRs, 148 pushes in 1 year 1 month
rustcore-library
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