Gary Schulte
Staff Blockchain Protocol Engineer at ConsenSys
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolGary Schulte is a Staff Blockchain Protocol Engineer with 10+ years building high-performance distributed systems, analytics platforms, and cloud-native services from Portland, Oregon. Currently at ConsenSys, he applies deep backend Java expertise to Ethereum client work—contributing notable fixes and EIP-1559 support to the prominent Hyperledger Besu project. His career spans modernizing legacy monoliths into Vert.x microservices on Kubernetes, architecting petabyte-scale analytics and ETL pipelines, and designing AWS-native streaming analytics at companies like OpenGov and Jive. Equally comfortable in low-level protocol details and large-scale data architectures, he blends applied math and CS training with hands-on platform delivery. Peers rely on him for performance tuning, system migrations, and pragmatic roadmaps that bridge research-grade blockchain specs with production realities.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degrees, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degrees, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (9)
json-rpc10
javas10
eip10
ethereum10
blockchain10
java10
testing10
solidity8
rust6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger/besu
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
An enterprise-grade Java-based, Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum client https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/besu
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 1176 reviews, 211 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Gary Schulte's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Besu Ethereum client, particularly in relation to the "merge" update. His work included fixing retesteth compatibility issues, handling JSON-RPC raw transactions, and adding support for EIP-1559 within the Besu command structure and Retesteth testing framework. Moreover, his efforts included updates to JSON-RPC responses and related code, and he has been instrumental in aligning the project with the latest develop branch.
besuhyperledgerlicensedethereump2p
Consensys/besu-shomei-plugin
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
besu plugin supporting shomei state management service for linea
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 13 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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