Vitaly Drogan
Software Engineer at Flashbots
Ukraine
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Top SchoolVitaly Drogan is a software engineer with nine years of experience building system-level and performance-oriented software, currently focused on blockchain and MEV research at Flashbots. He has deep hands-on experience in Rust, Solidity and TypeScript from work on ZK-rollup scaling at Matter Labs and blockchain framework development at Bitfury, and he contributed backend logic and critical contract checks to the high-profile zkSync project. With a strong academic background in theoretical and mathematical physics, he brings rigorous problem-solving and numerical intuition to complex system design and verification. Vitaly enjoys tackling unusual challenges—ranging from physics simulation frameworks to ZKP and consensus-layer code—and prefers Rust for its safety and expressive design. Colleagues know him for improving correctness in critical paths (e.g., block commitment and withdrawal checks) and for blending low-level systems thinking with practical blockchain engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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Github Skills (7)
zksync10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
matter-labs/zksync
May 2019 - Aug 2021
zkSync: trustless scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1941 commits, 22 PRs, 112 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vitaly's commits primarily revolve around implementing and modifying back-end logic within the zkSync project. Their work includes reverting and adding checks to existing smart contracts, specifically within the `ZkSync.sol` file, indicating involvement in critical system functions such as block commitment and withdrawals. The user also introduced checks for operations and contributed to the circuit and API tests by enhancing functionality.
privacyethereumteam-coretrustlessscaling
flashbots/mev-share-node
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:11 reviews, 17 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
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