Richard Melkonian
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Melkonian is a blockchain-focused Rust engineer and protocol lead with eight years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and L2/L1 networks from bootstrap to migration. He has led teams and hiring while defining technical direction at Movement Labs and contributed core runtime and parachain tooling at Parity Technologies, including work on the widely used Polkadot SDK and XCM testing/emulation. Comfortable across Rust, Go and Solidity, he’s built indexers, MEV trading logic, on-chain governance tools and high-speed microservices for projects like Fuel and Dapper Labs. Trained as a classical composer, he brings a disciplined, creative approach to system design and is known for balancing rigorous testing and migration safety with pragmatic product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Classical Composition, Music Theory and Composition, Classical Composition, Music Theory and Composition at Guildhall School of Music & Drama
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Github Skills (17)
substrate10
benchmark10
benchmarking10
polkadot-js10
blockchain10
rust10
polkadot10
create-react-app6
hardhat6
react6
nodejs6
archlinux6
react-scripts6
npm6
javascript6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/polkadot-sdk
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 13 PRs, 217 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the `paritytech/polkadot-sdk` repository, focusing on refactoring and improving the benchmarking code. Their work involved updating existing benchmarks to use benchmarking v2, which enhanced readability and maintainability. These changes were primarily focused on the `identity` and `alliance` pallets, demonstrating an understanding of the Polkadot SDK's core functionalities. Furthermore, they addressed the implementation of a force remove vesting functionality.
blockchaincumuluspolkadotsubstrate
movementlabsxyz/hyperlane-monorepo
Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
The home for Hyperlane core contracts, sdk packages, and other infrastructure
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 PRs, 65 pushes in 4 months
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