Cory Levinson
Technical Lead at Submarine Scientific
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolCory Levinson is a Technical Lead and independent consultant in Los Angeles with 13+ years building data infrastructure, analytics, and blockchain systems. He currently leads engineering at Submarine Scientific and advises clients after serving as Director of Product & Engineering at Regen Network, bringing hands-on experience across peer-to-peer protocols, developer tooling, and distributed systems. An active open-source contributor to projects like the Cosmos SDK, he has refactored protobuf schemas and code generation to improve modularity—demonstrating deep Go and protocol-buffer expertise in core blockchain tooling. His background includes leading data platform strategy at SoundCloud (Spark tooling, Kafka migration) and running network and economic simulations for Ethereum-mainnet projects such as Clovers.network. With an honors mathematics degree and training in music technology and sonic arts, he applies a systems-thinking, interdisciplinary approach to product and infrastructure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Soils & Biogeochemistry Graduate Group, Master of Science - MS Soils & Biogeochemistry Graduate Group at University of California, Davis
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Github Skills (19)
cosmos-sdk10
protocol-buffers10
go10
blockchain10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
python9
golang9
csv9
cryptocurrency8
parquet6
jupyter-notebook6
amazon-s36
amazon-web-services6
jupyterlab6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/cosmos-sdk
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 202 reviews, 49 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on updating and refactoring protocol buffer files and definitions within the Cosmos SDK. Their work involved consolidating proto files, updating code generation scripts, and restructuring the file layout to align with best practices, including the use of `buf.build` naming conventions. This included modifications to `crypto/types/crypto.pb.go` and `types/cosmos.pb.go` files and restructuring proto packages to improve code organization, which demonstrates an understanding of Go and protocol buffer best practices. These changes likely involved modifying core functionality of the blockchain framework.
golangcosmos-sdkblockchainchainscryptocurrency
regen-network/regen-registry-program-guide
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
:seedling: Regen Registry Program Guide
Contributions:7 reviews, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 month
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