Victor Castell
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolVictor Castell is a platform architect and distributed systems engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native and blockchain infrastructures from Barcelona. He founded Distributed Works and authored Dkron, demonstrating a long-standing focus on resilient, open-source distributed tooling, and later contributed DevOps improvements to Polygon’s Heimdall validator node—streamlining Docker, CI/CD and release workflows for a high-profile blockchain project. At Jobandtalent he led platform architecture efforts around logging, telemetry and deploy systems, and more recently held staff engineering roles at Polygon Labs and advises the AKASHA Hub on crypto and security. Victor blends hands-on systems engineering with product-minded architecture, favoring pragmatic automation and observability to make complex distributed systems operable at scale.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Computer electronics, Associate's Degree Computer electronics at Salesians de SarriàUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish, Catalan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
go9
ethereum8
decentralized-applications7
staking7
git6
cron6
kaminari6
metasearch6
sftp6
gitconfig6
ruby6
sidekiq6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
maticnetwork/heimdall
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Validator node for Polygon PoS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 32 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on streamlining the development and deployment process for the Polygon PoS validator node. Their contributions included configuring the project to be compatible with Docker, developing docker-compose files, and creating CI/CD workflows for publishing releases, packages, and docker images. They also modified the entrypoint script to correctly handle the heimdall and bridge processes within a Docker environment. Further contributions include enabling environment variable configuration.
posvalidationethereumdappsproof-of-stake
resslerruntime3/polygon-edge
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
A Framework for Building Ethereum-compatible Blockchain Networks
Contributions:29 commits in 6 days
ethereumblockchainpolygon
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