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Daithi Coombes

Backend Engineer In The Crypto Industry With Team Lead Experience
Galway

Summary

The first 10 years of Daithi’s career was as a digital nomad, contracting with companies such as CityIndex, City, Odesk and Guru, including positions such as Head of Development with Best Photos Ireland, Future Analytics and Dream Ireland. After this he decided to move in house and focus on DLT and Blockchain technology. In 2015, whilst working on EU Horizon 2020 research projects, he came across the Ethereum Yellow Paper and has been in the DLT industry since.


Experienced backend engineer with over 20 years in software development, 7 years specializing in Solidity and the DLT industry. Proven track record in team leadership, protocol development, and automation. Adept at managing complex API ecosystems, implementing smart contracts, and optimizing blockchain clients. Passionate about blockchain technology and dedicated to contributing to the crypto space. Current Activities and Memberships: Member of Token Engineering Commons, actively participating in Token Engineering Modeling methodologies, Techniques & Tools with the Token Academy.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
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Language

Work History

Uphold | Backend Engineer

05.2021 - 12.2022
  • Managed and maintained multiple APIs, including focusing on smart contract automation for customer deposits
  • Lead team developer pioneering research and features for Ethereum EIPs to enhance business logic, such as EIP-1559 Fee Market and also protocol upgrades such as the Shanghai Upgrade
  • Built proof of concept for deposit wallet automation using Metamorphic Contracts on Solidity
  • Refactored and implemented batching and sweeping contracts for efficient cryptocurrency management
  • Orchestrated general maintenance of NodeJS and Typescript APIs, including PostgresSQL state
  • Advised on systems and procedures as the team scaled from 7 to 21 during 2022
  • Executed various DevOps tasks, including working with the infrastructure team for environment provisioning (e.g
  • Staging, dev, test etc)
  • Utilized Hardhat, Ethers, ethereumjs, Solidity, K8s, K9s, Golang, Nodejs, Bash, Python.

Blockdaemon | Backend Engineer

09.2019 - 09.2020
  • Specialized mainly in EVM stack, Ethereum, Celo, and NEAR, optimizing and configuring blockchain clients
  • Developed API and APM solutions in Golang for microservices monitoring and alerting
  • Automated deployment of blockchain nodes across platforms like AWS, Azure, and Hetzner
  • Led Blockdaemon to become a founding validator of Celo, participating in protocol competitions
  • Acted as the lead Solidity developer for the EVM stack
  • Contributed to external communities to enhance respective products
  • Employed Golang, bash, Nodejs, Python, Rust, Ansible, Kubernetes, GCE, AWS, Hetzner.

BlockInit | Founder

01.2017 - 01.2020
  • Founded BlockInit, focusing on blockchain-based capital ecosystems and educating stakeholders
  • Demoed an Insure Tech solution at Web Summit (HyperLedger Fabric) and initiated a Smart City project
  • Developed smart contract ecosystem for property ecosystem
  • Executed various projects in Solidity, including solutions for animal reserves and fitness industries
  • Taught Solidity at Trinity College Science Gallery and delivered talks on blockchain multiple banks across Galway and Dublin.

Contract Roles

CitiGroup, Future Finance, Future Analytics
01.2001 - 01.2018
  • Future Finance, Future Analytics, Contributed to fintech and finance engineering roles, transitioning from fullstack to backend
  • Led API teams, adopting NodeJS for API development since 2012
  • Designed databases using SQL (MySQL) and noSQL (MongoDB), integrated 3rd-party systems
  • Managed monitoring services and trained team members
  • Implemented containerization for infrastructure design
  • Engaged with clients and outsourced teams to deliver high-quality solutions
  • Supported ArcGIS dashboards and data modeling, refactored deprecated systems
  • Involved in the EU Horizon 2020 initiative, researching and building tools.

Education

Associate of Science - Certified Intensive Webmaster

FAS Cabra
Cabra, Dublin
01.2001 - 01.2002

Skills

Nodejs

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Timeline

Uphold | Backend Engineer

05.2021 - 12.2022

Blockdaemon | Backend Engineer

09.2019 - 09.2020

BlockInit | Founder

01.2017 - 01.2020

Associate of Science - Certified Intensive Webmaster

FAS Cabra
01.2001 - 01.2002

Contract Roles

CitiGroup, Future Finance, Future Analytics
01.2001 - 01.2018

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