Steve Ellis
Cofounder at Chainlink Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Ellis is a veteran software founder and engineer with 14 years building cryptographic and distributed systems from NYC, currently serving as Cofounder at Chainlink Labs. He combines deep hands-on experience in backend and smart contract development with executive technology leadership from his years as CTO at SmartContract and Chainlink, helping productionize decentralized oracle networks. His open-source contributions to the flagship Chainlink repo include refining core contracts like FluxAggregator—introducing data validity checks and gas optimizations that improved governance and on-chain data handling. Comfortable moving between protocol design and pragmatic engineering, he has a track record of turning research-grade crypto concepts into robust, deployable infrastructure. An early Pivotal Labs engineer and former NYU teaching assistant, he blends startup grit with mentoring and product-focused delivery.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (15)
gas-optimization10
smart-contracts10
json10
go10
solidity10
api10
back-end-development10
ethereum10
apidoc10
blockchain10
go-gin9
g9
decentralized-finance9
web-framework9
mvc7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Backend & Smart Contract Developer
Backend & Smart Contract DeveloperContributions:1 release, 663 reviews, 2803 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the core logic of the Chainlink smart contract project. They worked on refining and enhancing the FluxAggregator and similar contracts by implementing and refactoring code related to governance, data processing, and event handling. Their work involved updating the structure of the smart contracts, introducing new functionalities such as checking for data validity, and optimising gas usage in certain key methods.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
smartcontractkit/wei_watchers
May 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:179 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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