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Danilo Pantani

@danilopantani

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Blockchain protocol engineer building Go Cosmos SDK modules, IBC, and validator infrastructure.

Brazil

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for Senior / Staff / Principal protocol engineer scope: building Cosmos SDK + IBC modules and validator infrastructure in Go, owning features end-to-end, and contributing release-quality upstream fixes—with strong developer ergonomics and modern DevOps.

I design and ship blockchain protocols in Go—Cosmos SDK modules, IBC, and validator infrastructure—from ADR to mainnet. I’m a maintainer-level contributor who delivers release-quality changes end-to-end.

At AllinBits (Ignite), I’ve maintained and extended Ignite CLI, contributing 300+ public merged PRs across protoanalysis, AST-driven code generation, scaffold migrations, and CLI UX. I also shipped protocol and module work for AtomOne / Cosmos SDK fork efforts, including the authoring of ADR-004 Nakamoto Bonus mechanics, governance migration fixes, and validator-commission update logic.

My protocol scope spans distributed systems and validator workflows: I work on IBC core and transfer functionality, consumer-chain lifecycle handling, misbehaviour validation, and Validator-as-a-Service workflows. I’ve improved developer experience across CLI scaffolding, protobuf analysis, and nested RPC interface-registry handling, integrating AI coding assistants into review and refactor loops.

Previously at Trust Wallet blockatlas, I led backend work on multi-chain indexing and integration, with 200+ public merged PRs across chain integrations, indexers, market-data routes, and full-node tooling. Across 10+ years in production, I bring full-stack and DevOps range to own the feature end-to-end.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Staff Blockchain Engineer

AllinBits (Ignite)

Dec 2022 - Mar 2026 (3 years 3 months)

Maintained and extended Ignite CLI (300+ public merged PRs), driving Cosmos SDK tooling improvements via protoanalysis, AST-driven code generation, and scaffold migrations. Shipped AtomOne/Cosmos SDK fork protocol work including ADR-004 Nakamoto Bonus, governance migrations, and validator-commission update logic.

Go Cosmos SDK IBC Protoanalysis AST Code Generation CLI gRPC CI CD

Blockchain Engineer, Go

Interchain Foundation

Jun 2022 - Dec 2022 (6 months)

Contributed to Cosmos Hub/ATOM chain development, building module-composition and IBC-related functionality for downstream Cosmos SDK chains. Improved capability-keeper behavior in IBC-Go.

Go Cosmos SDK IBC Capability Keeper Distributed Systems Protocol Engineering

Senior Blockchain Engineer

AllinBits (Ignite)

Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year)

Joined Ignite CLI as a founding engineer, owning end-to-end delivery from API/UI to Cosmos SDK blockchain module work. Shipped scaffold/protobuf and CLI-UX features that fed into ADR and mainnet releases.

Go Cosmos SDK IBC CLI Protobuf gRPC REST APIs Developer Experience

Layer-2 Blockchain Engineer

Polygon Hermez

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021 (4 months)

Built Go backend and protocol-adjacent services for Hermez, an Ethereum zk-SNARKs rollup operator stack. Integrated Go services with Ethereum tooling and the prover/coordinator pipeline used by the rollup operator workflows.

Go Ethereum zk SNARK Prover Coordinator Integration Rollup Infrastructure Backend Engineering Distributed Systems Protocol Adjacency

Backend Engineer / Architect

AtomOne

Apr 2020 - Feb 2021 (10 months)

Built Go backend services for Energi DeFi and custodial wallet systems, including L2 private-key custody flows. Owned Kubernetes deployment architecture (Helm, GitHub Actions CI/CD) and implemented Prometheus/Grafana observability for production chain-node operations.

Go Ethereum EVM Protobuf gRPC Kubernetes Helm Terraform Prometheus Grafana

Backend Lead, Go

Trust Wallet

Aug 2019 - Apr 2020 (8 months)

Led backend work on Trust Wallet’s multi-chain indexing and integration platform (blockatlas), delivering 200+ public merged PRs across chain integrations, indexers, market-data routes, and full-node tooling. Migrated legacy Node.js services to Go to standardize worker pools, fan-out processing, and production-grade concurrency patterns.

Go Node Multi Chain Indexing Full Node Tooling Concurrency Worker Pools gRPC REST APIs CI CD Observability

Tech Lead — Backend & Mobile

MercadoBitcoin

Mar 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 5 months)

Built Go and Python services for multi-chain transaction tracking and payload signing for a major LATAM crypto exchange. Maintained hot/warm/cold wallet scripts and key-management procedures integrated with ZK-SNARKs and Ethereum Layer-2.

Go Python Ethereum EVM Transaction Indexing Payload Signing zk SNARK