Evgenii Danilenko
CEO Co-Founder at Pelagos Network
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolEvgenii Danilenko is a seasoned blockchain engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, consensus layers, and cross-chain bridges, now leading Pelagos Network from Dubai. He previously drove architecture and delivery as Head of Blockchain at Fantom and as Staff Engineer at Polygon, where his work on Heimdall/Bor and Erigon helped deliver Polygon’s first issue-free hard fork and industry-leading scalability improvements. Evgenii combines deep Go and systems expertise—evident in contributions to Heimdall, Bor, Erigon and Status-go—with a track record of engineering horizontally scalable SVM architectures and microservices optimized for real-time workloads. He has repeatedly turned research into production: from boosting Ethereum throughput and building property-based tests to shipping VRF/DKG solutions reviewed by Cosmos. Known for solving subtle concurrency and reliability bugs (goroutine leaks, data races, WaitGroup misuse), he blends protocol-level insight with pragmatic engineering and mentorship across cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Not graduated Computer Software Engineering, Not graduated Computer Software Engineering at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
English, Russian
Github Skills (16)
golang10
go10
notification10
borsh10
notify10
ethereum10
blockchain10
concurrency10
api-design9
daap9
rpc9
api9
staking9
apim9
cosmos-sdk8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
maticnetwork/bor
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Official repository for the Polygon Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:436 reviews, 305 commits, 38 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Evgenii primarily contributed to the `bor` repository, which is the official repository for the Polygon Blockchain. Their work focused on implementing and integrating a whitelist service within the downloader component of the blockchain implementation. This included creating an interface for the whitelist service, modifying downloader logic, and adding tests for the new features. The changes also involved fixing types and integrating the new code with existing components.
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maticnetwork/heimdall
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Validator node for Polygon PoS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 22 commits, 11 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Evgenii's commits primarily involve refactoring and updating import statements across multiple Go files within the `heimdall` repository. They have made changes to the `go.mod` file, indicating dependency updates and module replacements. Additionally, the user has updated various Go files, including those related to the command-line interface, staking functionalities, bridge components, and helper functions. This suggests a focus on maintaining and adapting the project's core functionality.
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