Lucas Kohorst
Summary
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SeniorLucas Kohorst is a protocol engineering lead with a decade of experience focused on staking, mining, and blockchain infrastructure, currently leading protocol engineering at Digital Currency Group. He previously shaped Foundry’s institutional-facing staking and mining products, translating market intelligence into practical infrastructure tools that support decentralized networks. Based in Rochester, NY, he combines formal study in Blockchain Technology from RIT with hands-on product and engineering work across industry and nonprofit boards. Known for bridging institutional rigor and protocol-agnostic engineering, he excels at operationalizing staking services and enabling secure, transparent capital access for miners and validators. An operator who moves between strategic investment engineering and deep technical execution, he brings both ecosystem-level perspective and implementation discipline to protocol design and deployment.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (85)
leaflet10
prompt-tuning9
maps9
smtplib9
stacks-blockchain9
layer29
crypto8
javascript8
chatgpt-api8
keyword-search8
prompting8
sentiment8
bitcoin8
bash7
openai-api7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Lucas-Kohorst/awesome-defi
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
DeFi applications, lending/borrowing, AMMs, exchanges, hackathon projects
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 6 months
defi
Lucas-Kohorst/react-sentence-tree
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
React component to create a constituency and dependency tree diagrams
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
dependency-treereact-componentnlpnpmreact
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