Igor Papandinas
Blockchain Developer at Startale
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Papandinas is a blockchain developer with 9 years of engineering experience, specializing in Byzantine fault-tolerant systems, consensus protocols, and high-performance execution engines. Based in Paris, he builds production-grade infrastructure—recently working on CLOB DEX trading systems, Spot/Perps for tokens and RWAs, and Substrate-based L1 protocol development. His background spans low-level C++ and embedded systems at Thales to frontend engineering and leading teams integrating NFT, TEE, and transmission modules at Ternoa, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on blockchain stacks. He is fluent with Narwhal/Bullshark, HotStuff/Jolteon, CometBFT and the Reth SDK, and combines protocol research with pragmatic engineering to ship performant chains and bridges. Notably, he pairs formal consensus interests with hands-on implementation of indexers, bridges and SDKs—making him effective at moving ideas from protocol design into production.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Blockchain Engineer Programmation informatique applications spécifiques, Blockchain Engineer Programmation informatique applications spécifiques at Polkadot Blockchain AcademyEngineering degree Electrical and electronic engineering, Engineering degree Electrical and electronic engineering at ENSEIRB-MATMECABaccalauréat Général Scientifique, Baccalauréat Général Scientifique at Lycée Largenté - BayonneMaths Sup (PCSI) / Maths Spé (PC), Maths Sup (PCSI) / Maths Spé (PC) at CPGE Lycée René Cassin, Bayonne
French, Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (61)
substrate10
solidity10
evm10
typescript10
nextjs10
chain10
subquery10
parity10
marketplace10
staking10
sdk10
nft10
ethereum10
blockchain10
polkadot10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
capsule-corp-ternoa/nft-marketplace
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Create your own NFT Marketplace starting with our whitelabel marketplace
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 538 commits in 9 months
marketplacereactethereumblockchainnft-marketplace
kudos-ink/portal
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
A portal for the Substrate, Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem contributors.
Contributions:14 reviews, 39 PRs, 150 pushes in 1 year 2 months
kusamapolkadotsubstrate
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