Stjepan Golemac
Partner at Stealth Startup
Split, Croatia
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Top SchoolStjepan Golemac is a partner and seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building distributed systems, low-latency data pipelines, and funding APIs across crypto and fintech firms. He combines front-end expertise in React/React Native with back-end skills in Node.js, Rust, SQL and blockchain protocol work, backed by a Master's in Computer Science. His recent contributions to the Stacks blockchain include extending serialization tests and adding RPC support for cross-chain peg-in/peg-out operations, reflecting deep hands-on experience in protocol-level engineering and test automation. Past roles span startups and exchanges where he led tech teams and engineered high-throughput ingestion and funding systems for HFT and crypto. Based in Split, Croatia, he blends product-focused engineering with open-source collaboration, often working at the intersection of Rust, JavaScript and crypto. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design of robust integrations that require both low-level serialization correctness and production-grade automation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Faculty of Engineering and Computer ScienceMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
English, Croatian
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Github Skills (22)
testing10
bitcoin10
data-serialization10
bitcoins10
serialization10
blockchain10
rust10
stack9
decentralization9
layer29
apidoc8
api8
rpc8
create-react-app6
encryption6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/stacks-core
Feb 2023 - Sep 2023
The Stacks blockchain implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 7 PRs, 33 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Stjepan primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and serialization aspects of the Stacks blockchain implementation. Their work included adding and extending tests for serialization of peg-in and peg-out operations, which are crucial for cross-chain functionality. They also integrated new RPC functionalities for burn operations, specifically peg-out requests and fulfills, which involved modifying the RPC layer to support these new operations. Furthermore, the user wrote integration tests for these sbtc operations to validate their correct function.
appsblockstackdnsrustserverless
thomaschaplin/rmstuff
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
A tiny tool that cleans up your work directories
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 9 months
rusttinydirectoriescli
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