Distributed systems and protocol engineer. Nineteen years building systems software, the last eight in peer-to-peer networking, content-addressed durable storage and Ethereum infrastructure. Most recently engineering lead for Logos Storage, a privacy-preserving decentralised storage protocol.
Drawn to solving problems that make the world a better place, and to building tools that developers love to use.
All of my recent work has been done in public on GitHub.
Open to staff-level individual contributor and engineering leadership roles. Remote preferred, based in Sydney, Australia. Available from October 2026.
Reach me at hireme@egonat.me · egonat.me · LinkedIn · Resume
Below are some real world examples of protocol work to showcase how I approach problems and work, published in full:
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Slot reservations | Mechanism design for a decentralised storage market, with an adversarial analysis of six named attacker classes and a written record of every mechanism rejected along the way. Shipped. |
| Marketplace state restoration | Two competing on-chain architectures, built and benchmarked rather than argued about. Worst-case gas fell from 3,115,596 to 302,584, priced in EUR at live rates. |
| Recoverability analysis | Every state in a distributed sales machine, given a defined outcome under crash, power loss and asynchronous cancellation. Remediation phased across four releases. |
| How I work | One feature traced end-to-end: research proposal, epic breakdown, cross-repository implementation, specification. Including the three items deliberately left unshipped. |
| Dates | Title | Short description |
|---|---|---|
| 2025–2026 | Engineering Lead, Logos Storage | Protocol direction, interop, roadmap |
| 2024–2025 | Marketplace Team Lead, Codex | On-chain storage market, 4 reports |
| 2021–2024 | Senior Distributed Networking Engineer, Codex | Protocol node in Nim, DHT, erasure coding |
| 2020–2021 | Senior Nim and Qt Engineer, Status | Desktop client, Nim to C++ FFI |
| 2018–2020 | Senior JS/TS Engineer, Embark | Ethereum developer framework |
| 2007–2018 | Senior .NET Full Stack Developer | Enterprise platforms, CI/CD, Sydney |
Taught workshops at EDCON, Cryptolife, DappCon, EthBerlin, Devcon, EthCC and UNICEF Surge.
Nim TypeScript Go Solidity C C++ QML C#/.NET Python Shell
Mechanism and incentive design · adversarial threat modelling · asynchronous state machines and crash recovery · libp2p · Kademlia DHT · erasure coding · gas profiling and optimisation · formal verification · CI/CD · Kubernetes
B.Sc. Computer Engineering and B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Judo black belt.