Nicholas Corin
Senior Software Engineer at Chainlink Labs
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Corin is a senior software engineer based in Cape Town with 11 years of experience building high-scale distributed systems and production-grade backend services. He has led engineering teams and technical projects at Chainlink Labs, ConsenSys and Luno, delivering low-latency fraud and identity systems as well as migration to cloud-native architectures like Kubernetes. An active contributor to the Chainlink node codebase, he has improved EVM transaction handling and on-chain reliability for one of the most widely used decentralized oracle networks. Known as a polyglot who obsessively tunes his VIM, he combines hands-on systems work with mentoring and technical leadership across security-sensitive fintech and blockchain domains.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Rondebosch Boys' High School
English
Stackoverflow
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58questions
go
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Github Skills (21)
solidity10
oracles10
evm10
go10
oracle10
ethereum10
blockchain10
chainlink10
api-design9
apim9
api9
grpc6
proto6
php6
delve6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 17 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on the core logic and functionality of the Chainlink node, specifically within the context of the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine). Their commits demonstrate work on enhancing the ChainWriter service, including pre-parsing contract ABIs, modifying the transaction submission process, and integrating a transaction status check. The user also implemented improvements for fee components related to L1Oracle. These changes suggest a focus on improving the efficiency and reliability of on-chain interactions.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
nickcorin/snorlax
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:48 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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