Tommy Volk
Software Engineer at Fedi
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Volk is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently leading engineering efforts at Resolvr after a multi-year tenure at Google. He blends deep backend expertise with a practical focus on maintainability and efficiency, evidenced by contributions to the high-profile lightningnetwork/lnd project where he refactored payment lifecycle logic and removed redundant protocol fields. Self-starting since childhood, Tommy accelerated into production engineering early—joining Google at 19—and pairs that hands-on background with formal training from Hack Reactor. Based in the Twin Cities, he favors pragmatic improvements that reduce complexity and operational overhead while mentoring teams to ship reliable systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, General Studies, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, General Studies at Hack ReactorGenerals/Computer Science, Generals/Computer Science at Bethel UniversityGenerals, Generals at North Central University
Github Skills (9)
bitcoin10
protocols10
go10
bitcoins10
lightning-network10
blockchain10
cryptography9
unit-testing9
grpc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lightningnetwork/lnd
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 18 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tommy primarily contributed to the codebase by addressing various typo fixes, streamlining existing code, and refactoring existing functions, specifically in the lightning network daemon. The user removed the 'confirmation_height' from the PendingOpenChannel proto. Additionally, the user made modifications related to the payment lifecycle, enhancing the efficiency and reducing redundant operations. These changes suggest a focus on improving the codebase's overall maintainability and functionality.
cryptographypaymentsprotocoldaemonlightning
Resolvr-io/escrow
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:15 reviews, 36 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 month
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