Mike Purvis
Technical Lead Developer at FastNear
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMike Purvis is a Technical Lead Developer with 14 years of software experience and six years focused on core blockchain engineering, joining NEAR Protocol nine months before mainnet. He currently leads engineering at FastNear, operating a global fleet of 100+ nodes and systems that handle over 10 billion requests per month while building bespoke scalable metrics, vector DB-based analytics, and API key management. A hands-on full-stack contributor to NEAR’s ecosystem, his work spans SDKs, tooling, docs, and NFT examples—improving near-api-js typedocs, near-sdk-rs robustness, and create-near-app usability. He co-founded CronCat to automate trustless blockchain execution and has a background in developer experience, people management, and devops that helps him bridge product, docs, and infrastructure. Based in Portland, he pairs deep Rust and backend expertise with pragmatic product thinking, and often surfaces small but critical fixes (like account validation and broken-doc links) that keep ecosystems stable.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Hawaii at HiloUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
borsh10
scripting10
testing10
script10
sdk10
blockchain10
sh10
smart-contracts10
rust10
shell10
react10
documentation10
wasm-pack9
github9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
near-examples/NFT
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Example implementations of tokens to represent unique assets, such as collectibles or deeds, using the NEP-171 spec (similar to ERC-721)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 32 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on developing the back-end functionality for a non-fungible token (NFT) implementation. They added core data structures and logic for handling token types and tokens, including functions for granting and revoking access, and transferring tokens. The user also implemented minting tokens and retrieving the owner. Tests were added to verify the functionality.
erc721rustcli
near/create-near-app
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Create a starter app hooked up to the NEAR blockchain
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 79 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the development of the `create-near-app` project, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects. Their contributions included updating dependencies, improving project structure by copying scripts, and integrating a stop-gap for outdated near-shell versions. Moreover, the user addressed frontend aspects by changing the greeting messages, and adjusted the build process by integrating shelljs.
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