Ivan Shumkov
Principal Engineer, Platform Team Lead
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolIvan Shumkov is a Principal Engineer and Platform Team Lead with 16+ years building high-load, distributed systems and 18 years in software overall, currently leading the unified Platform team at Dash Core Group. He architects and implements core Web3 infrastructure—ranging from consensus and state transitions to light clients and decentralized identities—while also improving team velocity through engineering standards and tooling like Dashmate. Ivan led the Drive storage project from inception, uncovered and resolved a critical consensus ordering gap by designing a modified Tendermint-based secondary chain, and drove a full refactor to meet testnet deadlines. His background spans CTO roles and scaling consumer and ad platforms, giving him a rare blend of startup agility and production-grade engineering. Based in Tel Aviv, he codes primarily in Rust and JavaScript and is known for translating complex distributed protocols into practical, deployable systems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
ITMO University
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
ospf10
plotly-dash10
dashboard10
python10
testing10
ubuntu10
cryptocurrency10
indices10
state-machine10
governance10
cpp10
backend10
ansible-role10
p2p10
crypto10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
geometria-lab/Beseda
Mar 2011 - Sep 2017
Contributions:157 commits, 1 push in 6 years 6 months
apiapi-platformrealtimeweb-applicationsnode-js
dashevo/dashmate
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Distribution package for Dash Masternode installation
Contributions:55 releases, 445 reviews, 168 commits in 1 year 9 months
dashinstallationbackenddashboardmasternode
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