Lee Clagett
Software Developer (CCS Crowd Funded) at Monero
United States
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Top SchoolLee Clagett is a seasoned C++ software developer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, privacy-focused systems and tooling for cryptocurrency and P2P networks. He has contributed to the core Monero codebase and maintained a MyMonero-compatible light-wallet server, adding SSL-p2p, I2P/Tor seed support, and novel DOMless parsers for JSON/MsgPack/binary formats that reduce memory use. Comfortable across low-level optimization, networking, and distributed systems, he has modified assembly for position-independent scalar multiplication to dramatically speed wallet scanning and implemented Dandelion++ privacy and real-time mempool scanning. Lee’s background includes multi-threaded systems development at Parsons and storage API work for SAFE at Maidsafe, reflecting a strong systems design pedigree. He balances open-source stewardship with freelance consulting and has a master’s in computer science from Virginia Tech. A less obvious strength is his focus on backwards-compatible changes that avoid downtime—evident in his Monero p2p SSL rollout.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (14)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
concurrency9
cryptocurrency8
blockchain8
cryptography8
cmake7
heap-memory6
stack6
smart-pointers6
boost6
crash6
utf6
multimap6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
monero-project/monero
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:735 reviews, 150 commits, 215 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Lee primarily contributed to the core codebase, adding and improving utility functions. They focused on enhancing the string manipulation tools by adding static assertions to POD functions, ensuring type safety and preventing potential issues. Further contributions include the addition of a thread group for managing asynchronous tasks within the project, increasing concurrency and performance. Code changes were made in the ringct module, as well as in the wallet code base, indicating work across multiple parts of the project.
securecryptographycmakeuntraceableprivacy
vtnerd/monero-lws
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Monero Light Wallet Server (scans monero viewkeys and implements mymonero API). Fast LMDB backend.
Contributions:28 reviews, 58 commits, 161 PRs in 2 years 5 months
lmdbapicxx11lightmymonero
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