Alex Cruikshank
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Daniel is a software engineer with 15 years of experience building full‑stack web applications, currently at Relay Payments in San Francisco. Trained at Duke in computer science and finance, he pairs a Ruby on Rails + React product mindset with backend systems work — including Go contributions to the Filecoin venus full‑node implementation focused on message validation and storage market payments. A founding developer who launched a Heroku‑hosted local commerce platform and a former senior engineer who helped scale ReverbNation to millions, he brings startup grit and production‑grade engineering. Alex is comfortable spanning front‑end UX to low‑level protocol correctness and often surfaces hard‑to‑test edge cases into reliable, auditable systems.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
go10
blockchain10
testing10
cryptography9
api8
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
data-structures8
api-doc8
algorithm8
datastructure8
data-structure8
datastructures8
message-queue7
concurrency7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/venus
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Filecoin Full Node Implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:213 commits, 173 PRs, 510 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions centered on enhancing the Filecoin Full Node Implementation in Go (venus) by adding and modifying core functionalities. This involved implementing logic for validating actor nonces against message nonces, and making test improvements. The user also worked on storage market enhancements through new methods for payments. Furthermore, the user improved the system by adding code validation for processing messages.
golangfilecoinfull-nodeblockchainvenus
acruikshank/chat.os
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:46 commits in 2 months
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