Igor Yalovoy
Head Of Smart Contract Engineering at Kinto
Costa Rica
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Top SchoolIgor Yalovoy is a seasoned software leader and smart contract engineer with over two decades of software experience and more than a decade focused in crypto and DeFi. As Head of Smart Contract Engineering at Kinto and formerly at Balancer, he helped design and ship contracts that managed over $1 billion in assets, and as co-founder/CTO of Babylon Finance scaled AUM to $30M in under a year. A former OpenZeppelin core developer, Igor contributed to upgradeability tooling and security work that protected tens of billions for projects like Coinbase and Aave, combining deep Solidity expertise with practical upgrade and admin tooling. His background spans full-stack system design, production infrastructure and bespoke fintech products (including a custom Bitcoin wallet and escrow marketplace), reflecting both startup grit and careful engineering. Based in Costa Rica, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with leadership in building secure, auditable smart-contract systems and a history of shipping critical backend tooling used across the ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Engineering, Bachelor, Engineering at Southern Federal University
English, Russian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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ethereum
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Github Skills (17)
solidity10
openzeppelin10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
ethereum9
cli9
web3js6
decentralized-applications6
qr-code6
django-email6
blockchain6
nancy6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-sdk
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
OpenZeppelin SDK repository for CLI and upgrades.js. No longer actively developed.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:156 commits, 51 PRs, 349 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Igor contributed to the OpenZeppelin SDK repository by implementing features related to upgradeability administration. Their work included adding support for a proxy admin option to the `set-admin` command, which involved modifying the CLI tool. Additionally, the user added a `transferOwnership` method and associated tests for the `ProxyAdmin` class. This work demonstrates a focus on core backend logic and command-line tool enhancements.
cliopenzeppelin
KintoXYZ/socket-plugs
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 19 PRs, 51 pushes in 11 months
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