Giles Cope
Head Of Core Engineering at Input Output (IOHK)
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGiles Cope is a Head of Core Engineering and seasoned Rust blockchain engineer with 12+ years building high-assurance systems across finance and Web3. He currently leads core engineering for Midnight, a privacy-preserving Polkadot/Substrate-based chain, and has contributed substantial backend work to flagship open-source projects like Polkadot, Substrate and Cumulus. Comfortable moving between low-level consensus, XCM/asset handling and developer tooling, he also improves test infrastructure and diagnostics (notably in cargo). His background spans quant and risk systems in major banks through to DeFi and zero-knowledge sidechains, giving him rare domain depth in both financial engineering and decentralised protocols. A DevOps/testing and automation advocate who describes himself as an “Automation & Decentralisation Maximalist,” he combines hands-on systems coding with team leadership to ship production-grade blockchain stacks. Notably, he pairs enterprise-grade engineering habits with active open-source contributions that influence core parachain runtimes.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering at Imperial College LondonHandsworth Grammar School
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Github Skills (27)
substrate10
cargo10
package-management10
testing10
parity10
polkadot-js10
blockchain10
nodejs10
rust10
para10
polkadot10
par10
nodes10
cm10
documentation10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/cumulus
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Write Parachains on Substrate
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:461 reviews, 137 commits, 177 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Giles primarily contributed to the `cumulus` repository, which focuses on writing Parachains on Substrate. Their contributions include bumping the transaction version and spec version for Statemint, Statemine, and Westmint runtimes. They also configured Statemint and Statemine to allow teleports and added genesis values and Aura keys for Statemint. Further contributions included updating weights for pallet assets and uniques.
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paritytech/substrate
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:483 reviews, 173 commits, 134 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Giles primarily focused on reducing cargo doc warnings by fixing code comments and documentation across multiple files in the `substrate` repository. They made adjustments to various modules, including client-side network configurations, light client requests, consensus mechanisms, frame contracts, network services, and authority discovery workers. Their work involved correcting spelling errors and modifying code comments to enhance documentation clarity.
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