Pedro Gomes
Senior Blockchain Engineer at vechainofficial
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Gomes is a Senior Blockchain Engineer with 12+ years building scalable, secure distributed systems and a current focus on privacy-enhanced L2s and encrypted EVM execution. He combines deep backend expertise in Go and Solidity with hands-on experience integrating Ethereum tooling, CI/CD and observability across cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) from roles at Obscuro Labs, Ava Labs and VeChain. Pedro has driven technical direction and mentorship while shipping high-throughput data pipelines, testnets and production node features—his open-source contributions include performance and pagination improvements to the widely used avalanchego node and CI/test automation for coreth. Practical and design-minded, he prioritizes maintainability and real-world impact, pairing cryptography and secret-sharing work with pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Based in Ireland, he brings a rare mix of systems engineering, DevOps automation and applied crypto that accelerates secure, operable blockchain products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Skillnet CorkMaster's Degree Communication Networks, Master's Degree Communication Networks at Instituto Superior Técnico
English
Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
github-ci10
docker10
back-end-development10
scripting10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
go10
automation-testing10
sh10
automations10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ava-labs/avalanchego
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Go implementation of an Avalanche node.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 reviews, 250 commits, 17 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pedro implemented a "paginate flag" feature for the GetUtxos method within the AVM and PlatformVM modules, which suggests a focus on optimizing the retrieval of UTXOs. They made changes to the unit tests for the PlatformVM, specifically in relation to the genesis state and the GetUTXOs functionality, implying a role in testing and ensuring the correct behavior of the core logic. Furthermore, the user made general lint fixes and code optimizations.
golangavalanche
ava-labs/coreth
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Code and wrapper to extract Ethereum blockchain functionalities without network/consensus, for building custom blockchain services.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pedro's contributions primarily focused on automating the build, testing, and deployment processes for the `coreth` repository. They implemented and modified scripts, particularly `.github/workflows/run_e2e_tests.sh` and `scripts/build_image.sh`, to integrate the `avalanche-testing` framework and manage Docker image builds. These changes involved specifying image versions, setting up CI/CD pipelines, and configuring custom parameters for test execution within the Kurtosis environment. They also made several changes to the script including adapting to the changing variables in the project.
consensusethereumavalancheblockchainevm
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