Paul Handy
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Handy is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and low-level tooling, particularly in distributed ledger technology. At the IOTA Foundation he authored major performance improvements to proof-of-work libraries and helped rework persistence and graph-analysis components, reducing energy and computation overhead for transaction processing. His background in electrical engineering and earlier work in industrial automation and research gives him a strong systems-oriented mindset that bridges hardware constraints and software efficiency. A puzzle-lover by nature, he contributes to notable open-source projects like IOTA's core stacks, focusing on reliability and consistency in decentralized systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
iota10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
rocksdb10
java10
javas10
api10
backend10
api-design9
restful-api9
async9
asynchronous9
api-rest9
rest-api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iotaledger/iri
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
IOTA Reference Implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 55 commits, 194 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on modifying and extending the IOTA Reference Implementation. Their work included fixing issues related to milestone handling and null transactions. They implemented new functionality, like `findMilestone`, and made API-related changes. Additionally, the user updated the database interaction and added consistency handling to the RocksDB persistence provider.
iotareference-implementation
iotaledger/iota.js
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
IOTA JavaScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 29 PRs, 27 pushes in 20 days
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the core API logic for the IOTA JavaScript library. They added and modified functions related to transaction promotion, including `promoteTransaction` and related supporting functions like `isPromotable` and `checkConsistency`. The commits also introduced changes to how transactions are approved, potentially improving the reliability and functionality of the IOTA network integration. Further changes addressed minor bugs related to incorrect variable use.
iota-javascript-libraryjavascriptiotaiota-library
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