Jacob Gadikian
Founder at Notional labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Gadikian is an entrepreneur, engineer, and founder with 11 years building resilient, low-level blockchain and embedded systems that move proof-of-stake validation out of the cloud and into inexpensive at-home validators. He leads Notional Labs and has deep hands-on experience across the Cosmos ecosystem—contributing to core projects like Cosmos-SDK, IBC, Osmosis, Evmos and CosmWasm—while also shipping build automation, Raspberry Pi/ARM images, and CI/CD for heterogeneous architectures. Comfortable from firmware to mainnet, he’s implemented cross-architecture Linux deployments (ARM, x86, Power8, MIPS, RISC-V), maintained live validator nodes on production chains, and authored tooling that eases edge validation. His background spans founding roles, embedded hardware products, Bitcoin/GPU/ASIC mining infrastructure, and developer outreach at Tendermint and V Systems, blending product, ops and protocol design. Known for working almost exclusively in open source, he pairs systems-level rigor with incentive-aware blockchain design and a knack for diagnosing high-value, in-production chain failures.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in History & International Studies History, Bachelor of Arts in History & International Studies History at Loyola University ChicagoHigh School Diploma College Prep, High School Diploma College Prep at Canisius High School
Italian, Chinese, English, Korean, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (39)
go-modules10
cosmos-sdk10
dependency-management10
github-ci10
docker10
image10
testing10
tendermint10
codelist10
cosmos10
dockers10
cicd10
bc10
go10
ignite10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
osmosis-labs/osmosis
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The AMM Laboratory
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 140 reviews, 314 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the backend logic and infrastructure of the Osmosis project, as demonstrated through commit messages like "Add x/incentives cli docs" and code changes in `app/forks.go`. Their work involved modifying and creating scripts related to the blockchain's initialization, state sync, and archive node setup. The user also focused on resolving issues by updating the Tendermint and Cosmos SDK dependencies, and applying patches.
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cosmos/cosmos-sdk
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:174 reviews, 40 commits, 209 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the codebase related to the Tendermint and Cosmos SDK integration. They addressed conflicting import versions by utilizing `replace` directives within the `go.mod` file. The user upgraded the Cosmos-SDK to Go 1.18 and made related dependency updates. They also made code style and formatting improvements via `gofumpt`.
golangcosmos-sdkblockchainchainscryptocurrency
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