Patricio Napoli

Passionate Software Engineer.

Rust, Go, C++.

6+ years of experience in the field. Interested in blockchain, machine learning, backend, and gamedev. Well versed in coding or architecture.
I'm a team player, fast-learner and versatile programmer.
Author of notquine.dev dev blog.

Rust Engineer @ Parity
• June 2023 - Present

Rust development for Polkadot - Substrate - Cumulus, asset-conversion pallet.

Liquidity Pools development following UniswapV2 protocol
Currency conversions between native and parachains tokens
XCM development for asset conversions
Transactions payment using automatic currency conversions through pre-created liquidity pools

Senior Backend Engineer | Backend & Data Engineering • May 2017 - June 2023

Cross-Promotion Smart Contract development under Algorand blockchain with PyTEAL for enhanced cross installs and avoidance of double attribution.
Built AWS solutions as support for various analytics-related tasks, using Go, Lambda and DynamoDB.
Enhanced end user experience with real time difficulty tuning of gameplay through ML models served through a Go microservice.
Backend services development for games, including client side APIs, mobile native plugin development and server side features.

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology • 2015 - 2020

Degree with a thesis on Crypto value prediction with deep learning.

PROJECTS

Nebula

C++17 modern game engine, multithreading and ECS features.

cpp, opengl, game engine, ecs, games

Olympus

Algo trading bot with deep learning predictions.

crypto bot, deep learning, lstm, gru, mlp

Gema

Docker service discovery agent paired with dynamic reverse proxy for scalable and monitored microservices.

go, docker swarm, nginx, observability

Skills

I'm a polyglot, very comfortable with backend languages but I believe in the right tool for the job. My main focus is backend engineering, distributed architectures, container orchestration and databases. I'm very interested in blockchain, machine learning and big data.

Languages

Rust
Go
C/C++
Java
C#
Python
JavaScript/Typescript

Tech Stacks

Backend Engineering | Rust (Hyper, Axum) - Go (Fiber, Mux, Fasthttp) - Python (FastAPI, Sanic) - Redis, NATS, SurrealDB
Blockchain | Algorand (PyTEAL, AlgoSigner) - Polkadot Substrate
Data Platform | Databricks - Kafka - Spark - Airflow
Data Science | keras, tensorflow, sklearn, Pandas, Matplotlib, numpy, seaborn
Frontend | TypeScript (SvelteKit, Skeleton UI)
DevOps & Infra | AWS, Datadog, ELK, Kubernetes (k3s), Docker, Github Actions
Databases | SurrealDB, RethinkDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, CouchbaseDB