Valdas Petrulis
Co-Founder Engineering Lead at www.mysterium.network
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
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Top SchoolValdas Petrulis is a seasoned full-stack engineering leader and co-founder with 12+ years building distributed, production-grade systems from telecom billing and high-throughput SMS platforms to a decentralized P2P VPN and bandwidth marketplace. He combines deep backend expertise in Go, PHP and Node.js with hands-on DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes/Openshift, Ansible), cryptography, PKI and blockchain-enabled micro-payments. At Mysterium Network he helped implement core backend functionality for a notable open-source dVPN node, bridging blockchain data with session processing and API robustness. Valdas is known for analytical, object-oriented design, pragmatic automation and a taste for cutting-edge architectures, while his early work managing huge MySQL datasets and telecom integrations underpins strong operational judgment. He hires and mentors engineers who prefer strongly-typed languages and ships cross-platform code spanning servers, desktop (Electron) and mobile.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary, Mathematics, Economics, Lithuanian, English, Secondary, Mathematics, Economics, Lithuanian, English at Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis gymnasiumbachelor, Computer Science, bachelor, Computer Science at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
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Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
go10
rest-api10
json9
apidoc9
swagger9
api9
blockchain7
simple-xml6
php6
sql6
gatsby6
validation6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mysteriumnetwork/node
Feb 2017 - Jan 2021
Mysterium Network Node - official implementation of distributed VPN network (dVPN) protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 124 reviews, 1533 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Valdas primarily focused on implementing and refining the backend functionality of the Mysterium Network Node. The user added a unified request parser for service options and also updated and improved the existing swagger documentation for the service endpoints. Furthermore, the user addressed typos and resolved issues within the service endpoint, enhancing the robustness of the API. The user also made changes related to session processing and the utilization of blockchain data in the back-end of the Tequilapi.
vpn-clientvpnfreemysterium-networkvpnblockchain
mysteriumnetwork/openvpn-forwarder
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Forwards Openvpn traffic to Mysterium Network nodes
Contributions:11 releases, 6 reviews, 49 commits in 3 years 4 months
mysterium-networkvpnnodestrafficopenvpn
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