Níckolas Goline
Staff Engineer at Blockstream
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolNíckolas Goline is a Staff Engineer and technical leader with 13 years building high-performance distributed systems, specializing in Bitcoin and Lightning Network protocols. He led NLightning, a grant-funded C#/.NET Lightning implementation, and recently joined Blockstream after architecting ZEBEDEE’s transaction engine to enterprise scale. His background spans fintech, payments, and embedded hardware-software projects—from São Paulo subway ATMs to a Hackaday Prize quarterfinal—showing a rare mix of protocol engineering and production-grade financial infrastructure. Comfortable as CTO or principal engineer, he combines hands-on systems design, crypto security, and open-source stewardship to move bleeding-edge research into resilient, high-throughput systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel (incomplete), Aviação Civil, Bacharel (incomplete), Aviação Civil at Universidade Anhembi MorumbiTecnólogo em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas (incomplete), TI, Tecnólogo em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas (incomplete), TI at Faculdade de Tecnologia Bandeirantes
Spanish, English
Github Skills (57)
lightning10
lightning-network10
bitcoin10
omnisharp9
cryptography9
csharp9
blockchain9
vscode9
cryptocurrency9
p2p8
dotnet8
ipfs8
javascript8
nodejs8
peer-to-peer8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nGoline/NLightning
Mar 2024 - Apr 2026
This project aims to provide a robust and efficient implementation of the Lightning Network protocol in C#. We adhere to the Basis of Lightning Technology (BOLT) specifications to ensure compatibility with other Lightning Network implementations.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 63 PRs in 2 years 1 month
csharplightning-network
nGoline/medium-domain-proxy
Jun 2018 - Sep 2024
This Node.js Proxy allows your Medium page to have a custom domain.
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 3 months
nodejsproxy
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