Vasco Santos
Staff Protocol Engineer at Impossible Cloud Network
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVasco Santos is a Staff Protocol Engineer with 11 years of experience building core Web3 infrastructure, currently driving protocol work at Impossible Cloud in Berlin. He’s a core contributor to the JavaScript implementations of IPFS and libp2p, with hands-on improvements spanning DHT robustness, browser WebRTC examples, and CLI/usability features that help onboard developers to the decentralized web. Vasco has shipped backend and DevOps solutions for large-scale projects like nft.storage and web3.storage—implementing CAR chunking to bypass upload limits and improving production databases and infrastructure. Equally comfortable in protocol design and pragmatic engineering, he builds developer-friendly abstractions to hide distributed-systems complexity while questioning ecosystem assumptions (e.g., via his Hash-stream work). Outside of code, he’s a globe-trotting technologist who channels photography, music and hiking into creative problem-solving and community-focused open source leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated Masters - Computer and Telematics Engineering, Integrated Masters - Computer and Telematics Engineering at Universidade de Aveiro
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (39)
javascript10
postgresql10
apidoc10
testing10
ipfs10
websocket10
cicd10
libp2p10
moc10
mochajs10
file-storage10
filecoin10
api10
database-management10
nodejs10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
libp2p/js-libp2p
Jun 2018 - Jun 2022
The JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 283 reviews, 720 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Vasco primarily contributed to the core networking stack implementation of libp2p, focusing on the Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and associated features. Their work involved adding timeout mechanisms to DHT get operations, implementing and testing DHT functionality, and incorporating changes related to dependency management. Additionally, the user was involved in adapting APIs and making improvements to the overall structure of the project by refactoring different components.
ipfsp2pjavascriptnetworkingjs-ipfs
web3-storage/web3.storage
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:659 reviews, 181 commits, 348 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Vasco primarily contributed to refactoring the web3.storage client, replacing deprecated features with updated storage solutions. They modified the client's file storage service implementation, updating references to reflect the changes in the API and underlying technology. They also introduced a new API for file uploads and implemented examples for browser and Node.js environments. Additionally, the user made improvements to the API, adding features like metrics retrieval and deleting user uploads.
ipfsfilestoragefilecoinp2pfile-storage
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