Jay Pavlina
Lead Blockchain Engineer at Enjin
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Pavlina is a Lead Blockchain Engineer based in Montevideo with eight years of systems and game-development experience, now focused on Rust and Substrate-based blockchains. At Enjin he progressed from Senior Solutions Architect to leading engineering efforts on the Efinity parachain, designing runtimes and core blockchain components. He combines low-level, concurrent Rust systems work — from UDP servers and multi-threaded database writers to secure crypto primitives — with practical smart-contract development using ink! and TypeScript testing frameworks. His background as a game developer who shipped popular indie titles informs a player-first mindset for token and NFT experiences, bridging gameplay design and robust blockchain infrastructure. Known for shipping production-ready protocols and leading small technical teams, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and product-oriented thinking to complex distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bradford High SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA) Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Columbia College Chicago
English
Github Skills (91)
game-development10
data-driven10
godot10
game-engine10
rust10
open-source10
bevy10
rider9
engine9
sound-effects9
entity-component9
smart-contracts9
blockchain9
wrapper9
parity9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JayPavlina/game-music-emu-rust
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Rust bindings for Game Music Emu
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 years 4 months
rustmusic-gamesound-effectsrust-bindingsemu
Panteum/netcode.io
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Reference implementation of netcode.io
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
netcodedotnetreference-implementation
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