Pablo Dorado
Senior Software Engineer at Virto Network
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolPablo Dorado is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bogotá with 11–12 years of experience specializing in blockchain engineering and developer tooling. He currently drives backend and protocol work at Virto Network and has a history of senior and lead roles across fintech and streaming startups, blending full-stack chops with systems-level thinking. An active open-source contributor, Pablo has improved core pieces of the Parity Polkadot SDK and patched stability issues in WebTorrent's CLI, showing comfort with both blockchain primitives and real-world CLI tooling. He pairs academic training in computer science with hands-on product delivery, from co-founding a tech startup to leading engineering teams. Outside code, he channels his passion for tech and education as a podcast producer and host, reflecting a talent for explaining complex topics to broader audiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
French, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (22)
webtorrent10
substrate10
javascript10
blockchain10
nodejs10
rust10
cli10
asset-catalog9
benchmark9
git9
benchmarking9
polkadot-js9
polkadot9
asset-management9
compression6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/polkadot-sdk
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:130 reviews, 17 PRs, 170 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Pablo contributed to the `paritytech/polkadot-sdk` repository by making documentation improvements, specifically clarifying methods within the `VoteTally` trait and adding descriptions. They also addressed benchmarking functions in the pallet-benchmarking module by splitting test functions. Further contributions include implementing events for `Deposited` and `Withdrawn` in asset management and implementing the `pallet-assets-freezer` and `pallet-assets-holder` features, and adding the call implementation for `transfer_all`.
blockchaincumuluspolkadotsubstrate
webtorrent/webtorrent-cli
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
WebTorrent, the streaming torrent client. For the command line.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Pablo made several commits that primarily focused on adapting the `webtorrent-cli` codebase to adhere to standard specifications and fix undefined variable issues. These changes involved modifying the command-line interface's core logic. The contributions included adjustments to the `bin/cmd.js` file, with a focus on refactoring and correcting variables to enhance code quality and stability within the project.
p2pbittorrentjavascriptstreamingwebrtc
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