Thomas Rush
Owner at TrueBlocks, LLC
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Rush is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building high-performance blockchain tooling and backend systems. As founder of TrueBlocks, he focuses on fast, interactive indexing and monitoring of the Ethereum blockchain, and has contributed substantive RPC and JSON‑RPC compliance work to the well-known Erigon Ethereum client. His background blends rigorous computer science and mathematics training with creative writing—an uncommon mix that informs both precise engineering and clear technical communication. Prior roles span startups and enterprise R&D (including IBM 3-D graphics) and reflect a long history of owning products and engineering craft.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, 4.0, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, 4.0 at Temple UniversityMFA, Creative Writing, MFA, Creative Writing at Rosemont CollegeMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
erigontech/erigon
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier https://docs.erigon.tech
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 31 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas implemented and enhanced several RPC (Remote Procedure Call) methods within the Erigon Ethereum implementation, focusing on transaction retrieval and Ethereum JSON-RPC API compliance. They added support for `eth_getTransactionBy*` methods, `web3_clientVersion`, and `web3_sha3`. Further contributions included the implementation of the `eth_getCode` and related methods, along with the addition of various uncle-related RPC calls and `eth_getTransactionCount`.
ethereumsolidityfrontierblockchain
TrueBlocks/tokenomics.io
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:317 commits, 3 PRs, 145 pushes in 8 months
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