Jorge Alvarado
Senior Software Engineer at 0x
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJorge Alvarado is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building robust blockchain infrastructure, currently contributing at 0x after a core developer role at Nethermind. He has deep hands-on expertise in Ethereum execution clients, having implemented block metadata, AuRa consensus improvements, fork handling, and extensive backward-compatibility and gas-metrics testing in the widely used Nethermind codebase. A fourth-year Computer Science student from the University of Havana, Jorge pairs academic research in AI and years as a teaching assistant with practical backend and QA engineering. He enjoys teaching and mentoring while keeping curiosity-driven learning at the core of his work, recently diving into blockchain research and new decentralized technologies. Colleagues know him for disciplined, test-focused development and for turning complex consensus edge cases into maintainable, well-tested code.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Havana
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
csharp10
ethereum10
blockchain10
dotnet-core10
testing10
evm9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
NethermindEth/nethermind
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
A robust, high-performance execution client for Ethereum node operators.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 149 commits, 77 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily focused on enhancing the codebase related to block information and AuRa consensus, demonstrating expertise in the Ethereum execution client. They implemented features such as adding metadata and backward compatibility testing for block info decoders. In addition to functionality, they also worked on implementing tests to ensure the code's integrity and the correct behavior of the system. The contributions also include improvements to the handling of forks, and gas usage metrics.
ethereumblockchainevmethereum-clienteth
jmederosalvarado/iosevka-custom
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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