Victor Castell

Flynn's Arcade, Spain

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Victor Castell is a platform architect and distributed systems engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native and blockchain infrastructures from Barcelona. He founded Distributed Works and authored Dkron, demonstrating a long-standing focus on resilient, open-source distributed tooling, and later contributed DevOps improvements to Polygon’s Heimdall validator node—streamlining Docker, CI/CD and release workflows for a high-profile blockchain project. At Jobandtalent he led platform architecture efforts around logging, telemetry and deploy systems, and more recently held staff engineering roles at Polygon Labs and advises the AKASHA Hub on crypto and security. Victor blends hands-on systems engineering with product-minded architecture, favoring pragmatic automation and observability to make complex distributed systems operable at scale.

13 years of coding experience

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Github Skills (15)

docker10

dockers10

cicd10

go9

ethereum8

decentralized-applications7

staking7

git6

cron6

metasearch6

kaminari6

sftp6

gitconfig6

ruby6

sidekiq6

Programming languages (22)

SmartyPowerShellC++CSSCRustMakefileGo

Github contributions (5)

0xPolygon/heimdall

Nov 2021 - Apr 2022

⚠️ Deprecated. Legacy Heimdall implementation for Polygon. See https://github.com/0xPolygon/heimdall-v2 for the active version.

Role in this project:

DevOps Engineer

Contributions:38 reviews, 32 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months

Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on streamlining the development and deployment process for the Polygon PoS validator node. Their contributions included configuring the project to be compatible with Docker, developing docker-compose files, and creating CI/CD workflows for publishing releases, packages, and docker images. They also modified the entrypoint script to correctly handle the heimdall and bridge processes within a Docker environment. Further contributions include enabling environment variable configuration.

posvalidationethereumdappsproof-of-stake

jobandtalent/dkron-rb

Dec 2015 - Jan 2021

Official Dkron HTTP API Ruby client

Contributions:33 commits, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 years 2 months

ruby-client

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