Joe Magon is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience building full-stack and backend systems, currently focused on integrations, LLM/AI agents, and Web3 at Toptal. He contributed to the Shardeum autoscaling EVM blockchain as a backend developer—implementing penalty transaction logic, archiver-discovery integration, and admin certificate endpoints—demonstrating practical experience with production blockchain internals. Comfortable across JavaScript, Python, and Go, he has a track record shipping features and fixes for both startups and consultancies including Pulley and BairesDev. His background as a university professor and former municipal IT director reflects strong communication skills and hands-on infrastructure experience beyond pure coding. Holding a master's in computer science from Universidade Estadual de Maringá, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Maringá
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Shardeum blockchain project. Their work includes implementing features related to penalty transactions, including validation and application within the system. Furthermore, they modified the core index to integrate and utilize the archiver-discovery module and the creation of the admin certificate endpoint. They have also been involved in general bug fixes and enhancements to core Shardeum functionality, such as changes to the getNetworkAccount and debug-related endpoints.
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