Raymond Pasco is a backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building low-level systems and blockchain infrastructure from New York. He has deep expertise in niche, research-driven projects—contributing to Urbit’s operating stack and to Rust-based Proof-of-Stake work on Namada and Anoma—where he implemented core logic, networking, cryptography, and IBC integrations. His background blends litigation-support consulting and hands-on development, giving him a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to system correctness and auditability. Raymond’s math training underpins his comfort with formal and low-level abstractions, and his track record shows a preference for projects that require digging into VM internals, protocol handling, and resource management rather than surface-level application work.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Central Connecticut State University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at University of Illinois Springfield
English, classical chinese, Japanese, French, Latin
Rust implementation of Namada, a Proof-of-Stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 220 commits, 19 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Raymond primarily worked on the backend logic within the Namada blockchain project. Their contributions focused on integrating and manipulating the IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) protocol for token transfers, suggesting experience with blockchain technology. They were involved in adding new commands to the CLI for managing blockchain functions, and the implementation of protocol parameter storage and handling.
Contributions:4 releases, 22 reviews, 317 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Raymond's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying code within the `anoma/anoma` repository, which is a reference implementation for the Anoma project. The user is involved in adding structures for transparent resource management, supporting resource backends for transactions, and working on the core logic for the Nock VM, adding features and implementing a set-level jet. These contributions indicate a focus on back-end functionality, particularly in the core functionality of the Anoma project, and show a significant involvement in the project's internal workings, demonstrating a strong degree of specialization in backend.
cryptographyanomaconsensusprotocolp2p
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