Matija Martinić is a Senior Software Engineer from Zagreb with 12 years of experience building back-end systems in Go, Python, Java and PHP, and a particular enthusiasm for Go. He has led engineering teams and product architecture across startups and scale-ups, including head-of-engineering responsibilities at VolumeFi and senior roles at Labelbox and Noom. Matija contributed core functionality to Paloma, a fast blockchain messenger protocol, implementing EVM message handling, smart contract ABI integrations and consensus/attestation flows that bridge on-chain execution and off-chain services. As founder and CEO of Velvetyx he combines hands-on coding with product and business ownership, while his work at Intercom and Qonto focused on reliable, cost-efficient realtime and backend infrastructure. He started programming at 11 and still codes daily, bringing a long-standing practical curiosity to system design and code quality. Matija pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for shipping secure, testable systems that integrate distributed consensus and blockchain mechanics.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
None Computer Science, None Computer Science at Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, University of Zagreb
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Contributions:2 releases, 36 reviews, 194 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matija primarily contributed to the core functionality of the blockchain messenger protocol. Their work involved implementing EVM message handling and logic calls, involving the integration of smart contracts via ABI, which allowed the ability to call and execute on-chain transactions. Furthermore, the user was responsible for adding and managing consensus queues along with adding various attestation processes, for increased security and validity.
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