Felix Shnir
Executive Director Quorum Blockchain Engineering Developer Advocacy at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFelix Shnir is an experienced software leader and Executive Director focused on Quorum blockchain engineering and developer advocacy at JPMorgan Chase, with over 15 years designing and delivering scalable enterprise and web systems. He combines deep hands-on expertise across servers, Java EE, C/C#/Perl/PHP, and databases with a proven track record building high-traffic consumer products and privacy tools—having been a founding engineer on Ghostery and architected systems serving millions of users. Felix contributes to open-source blockchain tooling (notably backend work on Consensys' CakeShop and Quorum Windows support), blending protocol-level upgrades with practical developer SDK and deployment improvements. His background spans startup co-founding, product leadership, and enterprise program delivery across media and finance, demonstrating an ability to translate complex requirements into production systems. Unusually for an executive, he pairs a humanities BA with a CS degree, reflecting a blend of strategic thinking and technical craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Brooklyn CollegeBA, History, BA, History at Rutgers University
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Consensys/cakeshop
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
An integrated development environment and SDK for Ethereum-like ledgers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 62 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily focused on backend development tasks, including refactoring and updating configurations for the Ethereum-like ledger environment. They updated dependencies and references related to `solc-cli`. The user also added support for Windows in Quorum configuration and addressed issues related to contract deserialization. Furthermore, they upgraded the project to version 0.10.0, involving changes to the service layer and constellation support.
integratedethereumblockchainledgerssdk
Consensys/quorum-aws
Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
Tools for deploying Quorum clusters to AWS
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
deployingclustersterraform-moduleskubernetesquorum
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