Available for Senior Go, Backend & Distributed Systems roles · Remote · UTC−3 · EU work-eligible

Danilo Pantani

Senior Go Engineer

Backend · Distributed Systems · Platform Engineering · Blockchain Infrastructure

10+ years in software engineering across backend platforms, financial systems, developer tooling, and blockchain infrastructure.

Go and distributed-systems engineering at the core, with technical leadership from system design through production operations.

Contact

Location São Paulo, Brazil
Citizenship Brazilian & Italian citizen
Remote UTC−3 · Worldwide
Telegram t.me/dpantani
Portfolio pantani.github.io
10+ years in software engineering across backend, financial, platform & blockchain systems
300+ public merged PRs in Ignite CLI
200+ public merged PRs in Trust Wallet blockatlas
1,100+ public merged PRs across open source (Cosmos, Ethereum & wallet backends)
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Selected Protocol Impact

Protocol decisions and production implementation, paired with public evidence.

AtomOne

Protocol + implementation

ContributionImplemented ADR-004 Nakamoto Bonus distribution-module behavior.

ScopeGovernance migrations and validator-commission logic in the AtomOne Cosmos SDK fork.

Ignite CLI

300+ PRs

ContributionAdvanced protoanalysis, AST-driven code generation and scaffold migrations.

ScopeImproved CLI UX and developer tooling for building Cosmos SDK chains.

Cosmos SDK · IBC-Go

Upstream

ContributionContributed interface-registry and gogoproto handling plus capability-keeper helpers.

ScopeStrengthened downstream module composition and cross-chain interoperability.

Trust Wallet blockatlas

200+ PRs

ContributionLed multi-chain indexing, integrations, full-node tooling and a Node.js-to-Go migration.

ScopeEstablished production concurrency patterns across wallet-backend services.

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Core Expertise

Backend and protocol engineering at the core, with full-stack and DevOps range for end-to-end ownership.

Blockchain & Protocol Engineering

Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, Tendermint, IBC, validator infrastructure, AtomOne, Gno, Ethereum, EVM, Bitcoin / UTXO, zk-SNARKs, Layer 2, rollup infrastructure.

Go Backend & Distributed Systems

Go, gRPC, REST APIs, backend architecture, concurrency, goroutines, worker pools, context cancellation, distributed systems, Validator-as-a-Service workflows, consumer-chain lifecycle, misbehaviour validation, and validator-commission updates.

Developer Tooling

CLI tooling, Cobra, Viper, code generation, AST manipulation, protobuf, protoanalysis, scaffold migrations, developer ergonomics, release workflows.

Infrastructure & DevOps

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Helm Charts, AWS, GCP, cloud deployments, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, multi-chain Cosmos full-node operations, observability, and production operations.

Full-Stack Delivery

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, responsive UI, component architecture, and full-stack delivery from API to interface.

AI-Augmented Engineering

AI coding assistants for repository context engineering, prompt design, and review/refactor loops across Go and Cosmos SDK codebases, plus MCP tooling authored for TouchDesigner through tdmcp.

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Professional Experience

Interchain Foundation

Blockchain Engineer, Go


Remote
  • Focused engagement on Cosmos Hub / ATOM chain development with the Interchain Foundation core team, contributing to gaia and surrounding Cosmos SDK module work.
  • Built module-composition and IBC-related functionality for downstream Cosmos SDK chains, including capability-keeper improvements in IBC-Go.

All in Bits (Ignite)

Senior Blockchain Engineer, Go


Remote
  • Joined Ignite CLI as a core engineer on the all-in-one platform for building, launching, and maintaining Cosmos SDK blockchains — shipping scaffold, protobuf, and CLI-UX work that fed the long-running 300+ public merged PR run continued through 2026.

Hermez Network

Blockchain / Layer-2 Engineer, Go


Remote
  • Built backend and protocol-adjacent Go services for Hermez, an Ethereum Layer-2 system based on zk-SNARKs.
  • Integrated Go services with Ethereum tooling and the prover / coordinator pipeline used by the rollup operator stack.

Energi

Backend Engineer / Architecture


Remote
  • Built Go backend services for the Energi DeFi stack and custodial wallet systems handling private-key custody flows.
  • Owned Kubernetes deployment architecture using Helm and GitHub Actions CI/CD for blockchain services and chain-node operations.
  • Implemented observability with Prometheus and Grafana for service and node monitoring across production environments.

Trust Wallet / Binance

Backend Lead, Go


Remote
  • Led backend work on Trust Wallet's multi-chain indexing and integration platform, blockatlas, with 200+ public merged PRs across chain integrations, indexers, market-data routes, and full-node tooling.
  • Migrated legacy Node.js services to Go, standardizing worker pools, fan-out processing, context cancellation, and production-grade concurrency patterns.
  • Operated and monitored production full nodes across multiple chains, supporting wallet backend infrastructure used by a large-scale crypto wallet user base.

Mercado Bitcoin

Tech Lead — Backend & Mobile


São Paulo
  • Built Go and Python services for multi-chain transaction tracking and payload signing at one of LATAM's largest crypto exchanges.
  • Maintained hot / warm / cold wallet scripts and key-management procedures integrated with exchange ledger and matching systems.
  • Led backend and mobile product engineering for customer-facing exchange workflows across iOS, Android, and web.

Earlier Roles

Tech Lead / Founder / Mobile Engineer


São Paulo

XDEX — exchange-service engineering in .NET. Finchain / FlowBTC — ERC-20 wallet flows, smart-contract integrations, and exchange compliance systems. Neon Bank — iOS / Android engineering and document-recognition workflows.

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Selected Repositories / Evidence

Public repositories that support the protocol, backend, interoperability, and developer-tooling work above.

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Teaching & Talks

FIAP · 2021

MBA instructor in decentralized application development and Ethereum smart contracts.

Go Blockchain · 2018

Instructor in Ethereum blockchain development and smart contracts for mobile.

Selected talks

Web3Family 2023, Barcelona — building Cosmos SDK chains and tooling with Ignite.
AwesomWasm 2023, Berlin — Ignite stack workshop.
ETH São Paulo 2021 — zk-SNARKs and Ethereum Layer 2.

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Education & Certifications

Education

Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Coursework toward Computer Science (6 semesters) and Electrical Engineering (8 semesters). São Paulo, Brazil.

Certifications

Programming Blockchain (2018) — Jimmy Song · 16h
Data Science (2021) — Let's Code Academy · 48h

Available for senior Go engineering roles

Building reliable backend and distributed systems.

Remote · UTC−3 · Brazilian and Italian citizen · EU work-eligible

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