Nina Barbakadze
Distributed Systems Engineer at Celestia Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNina Barbakadze is a distributed systems and protocol engineer based in Berlin with five years’ experience building stablecoin and consensus infrastructure. She’s a founding engineer at Mento Labs working on modular, cross-chain stablecoins and currently contributes to consensus and state machine work at Celestia Labs. Previously she wrote production Solidity and TypeScript for Celo, maintained SDKs and oracle tooling, and led audits, release cycles, and runbook documentation for protocol launches. An active open-source contributor with ties to PartyDAO and Celestia, she blends hands-on smart contract development, infrastructure automation (Kubernetes/Azure), and protocol design with economic collaboration. Outside engineering she’s known for a refined taste in orange wine, a small but telling signal of curiosity and attention to craft.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Codeworks
English, German, Georgian, Russian
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Github Skills (38)
crypto10
cosmos-sdk10
wallet10
tendermint10
reserve10
cosmos10
chain10
pos10
cryptocurrency10
sdk10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
nodes10
data-availability10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ninabarbakadze/celestia-core
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Celestia node software based on Tendermint.
Contributions:121 pushes, 24 branches in 8 months
ninabarbakadze/celestia-app
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
PoS application for the consensus portion of the Celestia network. Built using celestia-core (fork of CometBFT) and the cosmos-sdk
Contributions:266 pushes, 42 branches in 8 months
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