Summary
João Chervinski is a Research Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of experience specializing in blockchain systems, distributed protocols, and security, with strong Rust expertise. His work spans academia and industry, from a PhD at Monash—where he uncovered a major Monero privacy vulnerability and built benchmarking tools for Cosmos/IBC—to practical implementations like a multi-hop packet routing proof-of-concept for the Hermes Relayer. He combines protocol-level analysis with hands-on engineering, translating formal specs into working code and automation that cut test setup time by nearly fourfold. Comfortable with large-scale data analysis and performance tuning, he has published in top conferences (IEEE/IFIP DSN, ICBC) and routinely finds subtle protocol inconsistencies that impact cross-chain correctness.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (Honours), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor's degree (Honours), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Universidade Federal do Pampa
Advanced Diploma, Information Technology, Advanced Diploma, Information Technology at Instituto Federal Farroupilha
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology at Monash University
English, Portuguese, Indonesian