Lev Berman
Software Engineer at Arweave
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RockstarLev Berman is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in back-end systems and distributed storage. He has been a contributing engineer at Arweave since 2018, focusing on maintaining and refactoring core server code and optimizing file storage for better performance, memory use, and scalability. His open-source work includes significant contributions to the Arweave toolkit and to BigchainDB, where he strengthened test suites, fixed integration issues with Tendermint, and improved transaction-related reliability. Comfortable bridging development and QA, he often tackles thorny correctness and performance problems that surface only at scale. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic improvements that make decentralized storage systems more robust and maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
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erlang10
pytest10
python10
back-end-development10
blockchain10
test-automation10
tendermint9
database8
databases8
testing7
initialization6
mongodb6
fog6
ipython6
mongodb-database6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ArweaveTeam/arweave
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
The Arweave server and App Developer Toolkit.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 193 reviews, 664 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Lev primarily focused on maintaining and refactoring the Arweave server codebase. Their contributions included changes to the fork height settings and tests, as well as renaming classes and components. The user also implemented and optimized functions within the file storage library, addressing performance and memory usage. The user's work was crucial for improving the system's scalability.
developer-toolkitarweaveapp-developer
bigchaindb/bigchaindb
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Meet BigchainDB. The blockchain database.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:25 commits, 44 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lev primarily focused on enhancing the test suite and ensuring the quality of the BigchainDB codebase. Their contributions involved updating and re-enabling existing tests, particularly for asset and web transaction functionalities, adapting them to the latest BigchainDB 2.0 version. They also addressed and fixed broken tests related to various aspects of the system, like transaction schema, and configuration. Additionally, the user made adjustments related to the Tendermint integration and fixed the commit mode.
bftpythonbigchaindbblockchaindecentralized
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