Oliver Powell
Gandia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolOliver Powell is a polyglot software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native systems for fast-moving startups and distributed teams from Gandia, Spain. He has repeatedly delivered high-impact backend services in Go—leading platform and DevOps efforts, reducing GCP costs by 50%, and driving PCI DSS and ISO27001/compliance work. Oliver has deep blockchain and indexing expertise, contributing to a full-node JAM protocol implementation and designing novel staking reward indexers for Cosmos, Osmosis and Cardano. Comfortable shipping end-to-end—research to deployment—he also fixes subtle production problems (from data races to memory leaks) and has a knack for turning slow systems into performant, SLA-driven services.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical & Computer Engineering (incomplete), Electrical & Computer Engineering (incomplete) at University of Cape TownElectrical Engineering (Computer Systems), Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems) at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
172reputation
10kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (89)
sentry10
sdk10
golang10
crash-reports10
letsencrypt9
jam9
peer-to-peer9
programming-language9
backbone9
cryptocurrency9
blockchain9
lightning9
bitcoin9
certificate9
go9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
greywolve/clj-webdriver-boilerplate
Feb 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:8 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 7 months
acceptance-testingacceptance-testsboilerplatetestingexcellent
greywolve/opowell.com
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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