Nicholas Shellabarger
Co-Founder, CTO at Dork Labs
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Shellabarger is a founder and CTO with nine years of engineering experience building secure, long-lived decentralized finance systems and on-chain infrastructure. He leads protocol research and production-grade services across Nautilus Labs, Dork Labs, and HumbleSwap, prioritizing correctness, security, and survivability over hype. Hands-on across smart contracts, backend systems, and front-end tooling, he stabilized and scaled live trading platforms at Reach and contributed to the Reach smart contract language and Algorand standard library improvements. His work spans lending primitives, overcollateralized stablecoins, and exchange operations, demonstrating both product-facing delivery and research-driven protocol design. Based in Denver, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a developer’s attention to detail—often tackling subtle correctness issues like big-number accounting for blockchain minimum balances.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Alaska FairbanksJapanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Hokkaido University of EducationComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage
Japanese
Github Skills (9)
algorand10
blockchain9
dapps-development9
typescripts8
javascript8
typescript8
dsl8
typescript-types8
documentation7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
reach-sh/reach-lang
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Reach: The Safest and Smartest DApp Programming Language
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to documentation and code examples within the Reach smart contract language repository. They addressed minor issues like spelling errors and missing semicolons, and implemented updates to the `workshop-trust-fund.scrbl` tutorial, which likely involves modifications to the Reach DSL and associated example code. They also worked on improvements to the Algorand standard library, specifically enhancing the `minBalance` function to use big numbers and correct calculations for account minimums, showcasing proficiency in both the Reach language and Algorand-specific development.
reachdappethereumdslblockchain
temptemp3/sh2
Jun 2017 - May 2021
public bash library scripts
Contributions:112 commits, 21 PRs, 152 pushes in 4 years
gitpodbashtricksbash-librarybash-script
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