Kosta Korenkov
CTO at Timestripe
Montenegro
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKosta Korenkov is a hands-on CTO and seasoned software engineer with 12+ years building distributed web and blockchain systems from architecture to production. Based in Montenegro, he has launched interconnected products for the film industry, including an EVM on-ramp, scalable video-on-demand infrastructure and Ethereum payment smart contracts, and currently leads White Rabbit and YouStar. He brings deep crypto experience—contributions to bitcoinj, Bitpay/Bitcore, and Truffle show a track record across wallets, UTXO handling and developer tooling—and helped build one of the early Ethereum Layer-2s at LeapDAO. Equally comfortable in front-end UX work (Timestripe, Bitpay UI) and backend protocol logic, he blends TypeScript/Node.js, React, GraphQL, AWS and Solidity to ship end-to-end solutions. Collected experience from startups to enterprise team leadership gives him a pragmatic, product-focused approach to scaling systems and teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Московский Государственный Технический Университет им. Н.Э. Баумана (МГТУ) / Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, Russian
Github Skills (44)
application-framework10
filesystem10
javascript10
cout10
solidity10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
css10
app-framework10
key-management10
bitcoin10
user-interface10
bitcoins10
ui-design10
file-operations10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoinj/bitcoinj
May 2014 - Sep 2014
A library for working with Bitcoin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kosta primarily contributed to the core logic of the Bitcoinj library, adding new methods to the `Wallet` and `KeyChainGroup` classes to provide address management functionality. They refactored existing code to delegate address calls to `KeyChainGroup` and updated the HD wallet implementation to maintain stable keys after serialization. Further contributions involved addressing deserialization issues and enhancing the bloom filter logic for married wallets.
bip143bitcoinjbip141bip32bip173
bitpay/wallet
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Bitpay Wallet (formerly Copay) is a secure Bitcoin and other crypto currencies wallet platform for both desktop and mobile devices.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 17 PRs, 47 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kosta primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Bitpay wallet application. Their contributions included implementing an addon system, allowing for modular addition of features like custom menu items and views. Code changes also addressed UI elements, such as the bottom menu bar and the available balance display, and included the creation of directives like `qrScanner` and `logo` for improved user experience.
currencieswalletsegwitcrypto-currenciessecure
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.