Michelangelo Riccobene
Co-Founder at Erigon
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelangelo Riccobene is an Ethereum Core developer and software architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing distributed systems, telecom solutions, and full-stack web and blockchain applications. Based in Genoa, he has freelanced since 2014 while contributing to prominent open-source Ethereum infrastructure—most notably improvements to Erigon around logging, QA, RPC tests and peer-disconnection observability. He blends formal computer engineering training with a practical focus on software architecture, human-computer interaction and verification experiments, bringing both systems-level rigor and attention to developer ergonomics. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and smart-contract development, he has repeatedly moved between product engineering roles and consultancy to apply lessons across domains. A longtime ACM member, he pairs academic sensibilities with pragmatic delivery on performance-sensitive blockchain projects.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering MSc, Computer and Automation Engineering, Computer Engineering MSc, Computer and Automation Engineering at Università degli Studi di Palermo
Github Skills (13)
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
devops9
procedures9
rpc9
ropc9
drpc9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erigontech/erigon
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:72 reviews, 2 commits, 292 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michelangelo contributed to the Erigon project by implementing and improving several features related to the Ethereum implementation. They worked on enabling and integrating Sentry for peer disconnection events, improving logging and debugging functionality. Furthermore, the user added utilities for testing native recsplit index creation and improved the QA tests, including fixes for RPC tests.
ethereumblockchain
mriccobene/mriccobene.github.io
Jan 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:12 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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