Victor Snyder-graf
Senior Software Engineer at RISC Zero
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Snyder-graf is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, secure systems across networks, blockchain, and machine learning domains. Based in Seattle, he has shipped production work at Google and Microsoft—optimizing .NET runtime performance and automating network deployments—and played a key backend role on Celo’s golang blockchain, improving consensus proposer selection and transaction receipt handling. At RISC Zero he now contributes to platform and cryptography engineering, bringing practical expertise in performance benchmarking, containerized CI, and cryptographic protocols. Victor’s open-source contributions include enhancing .NET performance infrastructure and integrating BenchView reporting, reflecting a focus on measurable, automated performance analysis. He pairs systems-level rigor from a Computer Engineering background with curiosity-driven cross-domain work, often surfacing subtle consensus and performance bugs that improve reliability at scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (26)
consensus10
docker10
back-end-development10
bash10
dockers10
elo10
cicd10
performance-testing10
bash-shell10
script10
go10
blockchain10
sh10
shell10
dotnet9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
celo-org/celo-blockchain
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Official repository for the golang Celo Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 90 reviews, 31 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on enhancing the Celo blockchain's core back-end functionality. They implemented a shuffled round-robin proposer selector and improved transaction receipt handling. Significant contributions include addressing issues within the consensus mechanism, particularly regarding the proposer selection policy, and optimizing the eth_getTransactionReceipt function. Moreover, the user addressed several bugs related to the ethstats and other related backend components within the celo-blockchain project.
golangcelo-blockchainethereumblockchainweb3
dotnet/performance
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
This repo contains benchmarks used for testing the performance of all .NET Runtimes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Performance Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Performance EngineerContributions:12 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Victor contributed to the performance testing infrastructure for .NET runtimes. They added a container-based performance job to the CI pipeline, implemented and refactored code related to Docker scenarios, and integrated BenchView for result reporting. They also modified the code to add benchmark data for Azure Data Movement Library tests, enhancing the scope of the performance analysis. These contributions demonstrate a focus on automating performance testing and expanding the benchmarking capabilities.
dotnetbenchmarkingruntimestestingbenchmark
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