Joe Bowman
Co-Founder at Quicksilver
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Bowman is a blockchain-focused engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience building production-grade infrastructure and distributed systems. As Co-Founder of Quicksilver and Director at Elliptic Curve Ltd., he combines hands-on development in Go, Rust and Python with strategic leadership in proof-of-stake validation, liquid staking and cross-chain interoperability. Previously he led engineering and platform teams at Chorus One, architecting secure validator services and winning multiple Cosmos hackathons, and earlier drove large-scale DevOps and reliability programs across enterprise and public-health environments. He also contributes DevOps tooling and testnet orchestration for the Quicksilver protocol on GitHub, reflecting a practical bias for operationalizing blockchain networks. Based in East Hampshire, Joe pairs an MSc in Forensic IT with deep cryptography and UX interests, bringing a rare mix of security-minded rigor and product-focused execution.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Forensic Information Technology, MSc Forensic Information Technology at University of PortsmouthBSc (Hons) Computing, BSc (Hons) Computing at University of HertfordshireFHMR
English
Github Skills (7)
management10
script10
bash10
nodemanager10
cosmos-sdk8
cd6
cicd6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ingenuity-build/testnets
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Quicksilver Testnet Instructions and Config
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 16 reviews, 102 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joe's contributions primarily focus on setting up and configuring testnet environments for a Quicksilver blockchain. Their work includes writing scripts for building, initializing, and managing Quicksilver nodes. They also configure genesis files, seed nodes, and other network parameters. Furthermore, they created and modified scripts for tasks like creating validator keys, checking validator rewards and commission, and unjailing validators.
instructionsansiblequicksilverconfigtestnet
joe-bowman/bind-formula
Jan 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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