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Danilo Pantani

Senior Go / Blockchain Protocol EngineerCosmos SDK · IBC · Validator Infrastructure · Ethereum L2

10+ years building production blockchain systems. Maintainer of Ignite CLI (300+ merged PRs); protocol contributor to AtomOne (ADR-004 Nakamoto Bonus, distribution module), and upstream contributor to Cosmos SDK, IBC-Go, and Trust Wallet blockatlas (200+ PRs).

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Location São Paulo, Brazil
Remote UTC−3 · Worldwide
Telegram @dpantani
10+ years building production software & blockchain systems
300+ public merged PRs across Ignite CLI & Cosmos SDK tooling
200+ public merged PRs in Trust Wallet blockatlas
L1/L2 Cosmos SDK, IBC, validator infra, wallets & rollups
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Core Expertise

Blockchain & Protocols

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

Backend & Distributed Systems

Go, gRPC, REST APIs, backend architecture, concurrency, goroutines, channels, worker pools, fan-out pipelines, context cancellation, distributed systems.

Tooling & Developer Experience

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

Infrastructure & DevOps

Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, full nodes, observability, production operations; working knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Helm Charts.

AI-Assisted Engineering

Daily-driver use of Claude Code and Codex for repository context engineering, prompt design, and review/refactor loops on Go and Cosmos SDK codebases — productivity multiplier, not a deliverable.

Validator Infrastructure & Operations

Validator-as-a-Service workflows, consumer-chain lifecycle handling, misbehaviour validation, validator-commission updates, and full-node operations across multiple Cosmos chains.

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Open Source & Protocol Impact

Ignite CLI

300+ PRs

Protoanalysis, AST-driven code generation, scaffold migrations, CLI UX, developer ergonomics, and release-quality fixes across the all-in-one platform for building Cosmos SDK chains.

AtomOne

Cosmos fork

Distribution-module implementation, ADR-004 Nakamoto Bonus mechanics, governance-migration fixes, and validator-commission update logic on the AtomOne Cosmos SDK fork.

Hermez Node

Eth L2

Go backend and protocol-adjacent work for the zk-SNARK rollup operator stack — prover/coordinator integration and Ethereum Layer-2 infrastructure.

Ignite Network · tendermint/spn

SPN

Cosmos chain-launch coordination, sovereign-chain lifecycle workflows, and validator-oriented launch operations for sovereign network bootstrapping.

Cosmos SDK · IBC-Go

Upstream

Upstream contributions including interface-registry / gogoproto resolver handling and capability-keeper helpers for downstream module composition.

Trust Wallet blockatlas

200+ PRs

Multi-chain indexing, chain integrations, market-data routes, full-node tooling, and Node.js-to-Go migration across a high-traffic crypto wallet backend.

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Professional Experience

Interchain / Cosmos Hub

Blockchain Engineer, Go


Remote
  • Contributed Go code and supporting tooling for Cosmos Hub / ATOM chain development alongside the Interchain core ecosystem.
  • Built module-composition and IBC-related functionality for downstream Cosmos SDK chains, including capability-keeper improvements in IBC-Go.

Polygon Hermez

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.
  • Built and maintained blockchain data routes, asset metadata flows, transaction parsing, validator logic, RPC batching, and chain-specific integration logic.

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, mobile, and web 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 using OpenCV and C++. Miya / Pixon — real-time people-tracking systems using IoT, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, beacons, Wi-Fi micro-location, and computer-vision components.

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Selected Projects

ignite/cli

github.com/ignite/cli

Cosmos SDK chain tooling, scaffolding, protoanalysis, AST-driven code generation, CLI UX, and developer workflows.

ignite/apps

github.com/ignite/apps

Ignite ecosystem application tooling and Web3 developer-experience infrastructure.

cosmos/ibc-go

github.com/cosmos/ibc-go

IBC implementation work, capability-keeper helpers, and downstream chain composition support.

allinbits/vaas

github.com/allinbits/vaas

Validator-as-a-Service infrastructure for IBC provider hardening, lifecycle handling, and validator operations.

trustwallet/blockatlas

github.com/trustwallet/blockatlas

Multi-chain indexing, chain integrations, market-data routes, full-node tooling, and Node.js-to-Go migration work.

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