Senior tech lead with 19 years of experience building distributed systems, blockchain protocols, and Web3 applications. Promoted twice in 18 months, leading international engineering teams of up to six people across fully remote, open-source startups. Deep background in smart contract tooling, decentralised storage, and full-stack .NET development. See curated examples at egonat.me.
Drawn to solving problems that make the world a better place, and to building tools that developers love to use.
All of my recent work has been done in public on GitHub.
Open to engineering leadership and senior- and staff-level individual contributor roles. Based in Sydney, Australia. Available from October 2026.
Reach me at hireme@egonat.me · egonat.me · LinkedIn · Resume
Below are some real world examples of protocol work to showcase how I approach problems and work, published in full:
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Slot reservations | Reserving slots prevented a protocol-driven DDoS on the node that issued a storage request, using an expanding window mechanism governed by Kademlia distance. |
| Marketplace state restoration | Two contract data structures to store storage request state were benchmarked for their gas efficiency. Each data structure had their trade-offs, but there was a clear winner for our needs. |
| Recoverability analysis | Redesigned the entire sales state machine architecture after analysing recoverability during exceptions, cancellations, and hardware failures in the live network. |
| How I work | From research proposal, through to design, epic breakdown, cross-repository implementation, testing, and specification. |
| Dates | Title | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| 2025–2026 | Tech Lead & Engineering Manager, Logos Storage | P2P protocols · Nim · Node.js · C# · CI/CD |
| 2024–2025 | Tech Lead for Marketplace, Logos Storage | EVM contracts · P2P protocols · Solidity · Nim · Node.js · CI/CD |
| 2021–2024 | Senior Distributed Networking Engineer, Logos Storage | VM contracts · P2P protocols · Solidity · Nim · Node.js · CI/CD |
| 2020–2021 | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Status Desktop | Decentralised messaging · Go · Qt/QML · Nim · JavaScript |
| 2018–2020 | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Embark Framework | Web3 · Node.js · JavaScript · TypeScript · Solidity |
| 2007–2018 | Senior .NET Full Stack Developer (Sydney) | Enterprise CMS platforms · C# · ASP.NET · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL |
Languages: Nim, Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript), Solidity, QML, C#, Go
Distributed systems & Web3: Ethereum, EVM smart contracts, P2P networking, systems programming
Platform & infra: Kubernetes, Terraform (IaC), Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions, API design
Frameworks: React, Redux, Qt, .NET
B.Sc. Computer Engineering and B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt (2017), Judo black belt (2007).