Richard Melkonian
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RockstarRichard 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
Github Skills (7)
substrate10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
polkadot-js10
rust10
polkadot10
blockchain10
Programming languages (11)
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.
blockchainpolkadotcumulussubstrate
Inflow-Music-Co/inflow-app
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
the Inflow Music Social Token app
Contributions:6 reviews, 217 PRs, 439 pushes in 3 months
musicreactnextjstoken
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