Ignacio Corderi
Founder, CEO at Stealth AI Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIgnacio Corderi is a software leader and founder based in San Francisco with over 15 years of experience designing distributed systems, storage architectures, and high-performance backend services. He combines hands-on engineering in languages like Elixir, Rust, F#, and Python with deep systems expertise honed at organizations such as Algorand, Protocol Labs, Brex, and Seagate. Ignacio has led teams as Head of Engineering and Technical Director and now runs a stealth AI startup after co-founding GrowIt, demonstrating a pattern of shipping product-focused infrastructure across startups and research settings. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent blockchain and storage projects (notably performance-focused optimizations to Algorand and backend work on Filecoin Venus), bringing practical improvements to ledger and VM performance. His academic work in exascale storage and a past solo prototype of a million-drive virtual storage system reveal an uncommon ability to reason about extreme-scale systems. Known for tackling unusual and difficult problems, he blends architectural vision with meticulous troubleshooting and protocol-level craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Analista en Tecnologias de la Información Computer Science, Analista en Tecnologias de la Información Computer Science at Universidad ORT UruguayUniversity of California Santa CruzIngeniería en Informática Computer Science, Ingeniería en Informática Computer Science at Universidad Católica del Uruguay 'Dámaso Antonio Larranaga'
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian
Github Skills (13)
data-structures10
caching10
cachemanager10
filecoin10
algorand10
go10
performance-optimization10
data-structure10
blockchain10
system-design9
database-design9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/venus
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Filecoin Full Node Implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 108 PRs, 370 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ignacio primarily contributed to the back-end implementation of the Filecoin Venus project. Their commits focused on updating dependencies, refactoring legacy code, and integrating new features for the virtual machine processor. Key contributions include removing payment broker functionalities, refactoring and integrating new actor code, and improving the overall system's architecture. They also made changes related to the gas costs and the removal of legacy code.
golangfilecoinfull-nodeblockchainvenus
algorand/go-algorand
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Algorand's official implementation in Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 12 commits, 27 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ignacio's contributions primarily involve optimizing the performance of the Algorand blockchain's ledger, specifically targeting cache behavior during assembly and evaluation processes. These optimizations include implementing changes to reduce cache misses and improve cache hits, impacting how the ledger interacts with resources and accounts. The modifications involve adding mechanisms to track and manage operations related to account and resource lookups. Further, the user added functionality to manage and track "not found" entries, improving the efficiency of the ledger.
golangblockchainalgorand
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