Donovan Solms
Protocol Lead at Astroport
South Africa
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Top SchoolDonovan Solms is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building high-throughput systems and leading protocol development, currently serving as Protocol Lead at Astroport and building at monorail-xyz with Delphi Labs. He has a strong track record as a CTO across healthcare, mobile, and travel startups—most recently leading the engineering for the medical-grade online dermatology platform Dr Derma. Donovan excels at architecting scalable, high-volume data processing and messaging platforms, and earlier work in multitouch became part of a published handbook and academic research. He pairs deep hands-on engineering (from core systems to automation) with product-minded leadership, having shipped award-winning mobile experiences and grown platforms to hundreds of thousands of users. Based in South Africa, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a curiosity for networking and AI, often turning research-grade ideas into production-ready software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric, Matric, Matric at Waterkloof High SchoolUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (78)
miner10
sui10
solidity9
taxonomy9
logos9
ipfs9
cryptocurrency9
smart-contracts9
discord9
blockchain9
dex9
go9
linux8
monero8
terraform8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scala-network/GUI-miner
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
An easy to use GUI miner available for Windows, macOS and Linux
Contributions:6 releases, 10 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year
linuxmacosminerwindows
ProjectLimitless/ProjectLimitless
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 months
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