Open to remote Staff Backend Engineer roles · São Paulo · UTC−3

Danilo Pantani

Danilo Pantani — Staff Backend Engineer

Go (Golang) · Distributed Systems · Blockchain Infrastructure

São Paulo, Brazil · Brazilian & Italian (EU) citizen · UTC−3 · Remote · Open to relocation · Available immediately

danpantani@gmail.com · github.com/Pantani · linkedin.com/in/dpantani · pantani.xyz · t.me/dpantani

Professional Summary

Staff backend engineer with 10+ years in software engineering, focused on Go services, distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure.

Led backend work on Trust Wallet's multi-chain blockatlas, built Cosmos developer tooling at Ignite and implemented AtomOne distribution-module changes. Independent work includes Go client engagements and personal projects.

Based in Brazil (UTC−3), seeking remote Go/backend opportunities with employers outside Brazil.

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Contact

Location São Paulo, Brazil
Citizenship Brazilian & Italian (EU) citizen
Remote UTC−3 · Remote · Open to relocation · Available immediately
Email danpantani@gmail.com
GitHub github.com/Pantani
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/dpantani
Telegram t.me/dpantani
Portfolio pantani.xyz
10+ years in software engineering across backend, financial, platform & blockchain systems
300+ public merged PRs in Ignite CLI
200+ public merged PRs in Trust Wallet blockatlas
AST AST-based code generation and source transformations
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Technical Skills & Core Expertise

Go backend engineering and distributed systems are the focus, with professional experience in blockchain infrastructure and developer tooling.

Go Backend & Distributed Systems

Go (Golang), distributed systems, HTTP APIs, worker pools, fan-out, batching, context cancellation.

Platform Engineering, Cloud & DevOps

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, AWS, GCP, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana.

Developer Tooling

Protocol Buffers, AST transformations, code generation, scaffolding, CLI and SDK tooling.

Blockchain & Protocol Engineering

Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC, TypeScript relayers, AtomOne, Ethereum / EVM, Bitcoin / UTXO, zk-SNARKs, Layer 2.

Technical Leadership & Engineering Workflow

Hands-on team leadership, system design, technical decisions, code review, and cross-functional delivery across backend, mobile, and product engineering; repository-context, refactoring, and MCP tooling with tdmcp.

Full-Stack, Mobile & IoT

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular and React Native; native iOS and Android with Objective-C, Swift, Java and Kotlin.

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Selected Engineering Contributions

Evidence-backed examples of Go backend, distributed systems, platform, and protocol engineering.

Trust Wallet blockatlas

200+ PRs

ContributionLed Go backend work for multi-chain indexing, API integrations, market-data routes, and full-node tooling.

ScopeMore than 200 public merged PRs; contributed to the Node.js-to-Go migration using worker pools, fan-out processing, batching, and context cancellation.

EvidenceMerged PRsblockatlas

AtomOne

Protocol + implementation

ContributionImplemented distribution-module changes for ADR-004 Nakamoto Bonus.

ScopeLater work covered governance migrations and validator-commission updates in the AtomOne SDK fork.

Evidenceatomoneatomone-sdk

Ignite CLI

300+ PRs

ContributionBuilt Go developer tooling for protobuf analysis, AST-based code generation, scaffolding, and CLI workflows.

ScopeMore than 300 public merged PRs during my time at All in Bits (Jun 2021–Jul 2026).

EvidenceMerged PRsignite/cli

Cosmos SDK · IBC-Go

Upstream

ContributionFixed protobuf file resolution in Cosmos SDK AutoCLI and added HasModule to inspect capability scopes in IBC-Go.

ScopeTwo focused upstream contributions, with public implementation and tests.

EvidenceAutoCLI PRHasModule PR
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Professional Experience

Danilo Pantani

Staff Backend Engineer (Go/Golang) & Blockchain Engineer

Jul 2026 — Present
Self-employed · Remote
  • Build MCP servers that connect AI assistants to creative tools for musicians and visual artists: tdmcp for TouchDesigner and Ableton Mind for Ableton Live.
  • Take on occasional backend and Go assignments for external clients.

All in Bits (AiB) · Ignite

Staff Blockchain Engineer, Go — Developer Platform & Distributed Systems

Jun 2021 — Jul 2026
Senior to Dec 2022 · Staff from Jan 2023 · Remote
  • Built Ignite CLI tooling in Go: AST transformations, Protobuf generation, module scaffolding and SDK migrations; contributed upstream Cosmos SDK and IBC-Go fixes.
  • Implemented Hermes, CosmWasm and fee-abstraction integrations, plus Spaceship chain deployment over SSH/SFTP with process control and logs.
  • Implemented AtomOne Nakamoto Bonus distribution, epoch-based execution, validator commission rules and governance migration fixes.
  • Implemented VaaS fee pools, validator payments, debt-state propagation and transaction admission rules; added misbehaviour validation and IBC v2 fixes.
  • Extended Gno Realms IBC transfers with memos, GRC20 voucher helpers, relay authorization and query views.
  • Improved Go plugin execution and protobuf analysis with synchronized output handling, custom HTTP clients and resolution of qualified and nested RPC request messages.
  • Implemented airdrop start and claim rules, staking/governance hooks, mission invariants and simulation coverage in Cosmos SDK modules.
  • Implemented SPN modules in Go for validator profiles, chain-launch requests, campaign shares, vesting vouchers and reward distribution.
  • Implemented validation and invariants for chain-launch requests, campaign associations and share accounting in SPN.

Interchain Foundation

Blockchain Engineer, Go — Cosmos Hub & Interoperability

Jun 2022 — Feb 2023
Remote · in parallel with All in Bits
  • Maintained and evolved Gaia, the Cosmos Hub application, implementing bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements across the Go codebase.
  • Built E2E and unit tests for vesting, fee grants, validator unjailing and governance/group-controlled interchain accounts; maintained test helpers and CI.

Hermez Network (Iden3) · merged into Polygon · Polygon Hermez 2.0 · Polygon

Blockchain / Layer-2 Engineer, Go

Apr 2020 — Jun 2021
Remote
  • Refactored transaction selection in Go for the Ethereum L2 rollup, adding atomic transaction support and unit tests.
  • Built Go integration examples for Baby Jubjub wallet derivation, Ethereum account authorization, and L2 transaction signing, submission and tracking.
  • Integrated Go services with Ethereum smart contracts via ABI to submit zk-SNARK proofs for rollup batches.
  • Added Prometheus metrics, L1 account-authorization synchronization, transaction validation, race detection in CI, GoReleaser configuration and contract-address discovery.

Binance · Trust Wallet

Backend Lead, Go — Trust Wallet

Aug 2019 — Apr 2020
Remote
  • Led Go backend work on blockatlas: multi-chain integrations, transaction parsing, indexing, staking and market-data APIs.
  • Built the Go backend for a Binance crypto gift-card system, enabling token claims in Trust Wallet via QR codes and single-use redemption links.
  • Implemented RPC batching and Prometheus HTTP metrics; operated and monitored full nodes supporting the multi-chain backend.
  • Built transaction webhooks, PostgreSQL-backed observer storage, HTTP caching and market-data workers with exponential backoff; corrected concurrency issues in multi-chain processing.

Mercado Bitcoin

Tech Lead — Backend & Mobile

Mar 2018 — Aug 2019
São Paulo
  • At Mercado Bitcoin, I built Go and Python services for multi-chain transaction tracking and payload signing, with event-driven processing over Kafka, RabbitMQ and NATS.
  • The role also included hot, warm, and cold wallet scripts tied to the exchange ledger and matching systems.
  • Ran the exchange infrastructure on Kubernetes across AWS and GCP, managed as code with Terraform.
  • Led a seven-person mobile team and coordinated delivery across backend, iOS, Android and web engineering.

XP Inc. · XDEX

Staff Engineer

Jul 2017 — Mar 2018
São Paulo
  • Led the entire 15-person XDEX exchange engineering team as Staff Engineer, combining technical leadership with hands-on work across technical decisions, development and delivery.

Earlier Roles

Neon

Mobile Developer (Android / iOS) | Jul 2016 - Jul 2017

Miya Solutions

Co-Founder / CTO | Jan 2014 - Jul 2016

Pixon

Co-Founder / CTO | Jan 2014 - Jul 2016

iai? Instituto de Artes Interativas

Mobile Developer (Android / iOS) | Jul 2012 - Jan 2014

Brandish Ad

iOS Developer | Feb 2011 - Jul 2012

Personal Projects

Build tdmcp and Ableton Mind (TypeScript/Python); docs: pantani.xyz/tdmcp/ and pantani.xyz/ableton-mind/.

Rust personal study: Sunscreen for Solana and stellar-forge for Stellar; no professional Rust experience.

  • Extended tdmcp with retrieval fusion, explicit executable-code authorization and operator snapshot provenance; enabled Ableton Mind server startup and metadata access without a local Ableton bridge.
  • Built Healthcheck in Go for scheduled HTTP checks, Redis-backed state and PagerDuty alerts, and Chainops for declarative blockchain operations with validation and artifact planning.
  • Developed local XCM tooling in Cartographer and maintained deterministic wallet-address derivation and concurrency safety in Pool Party.

Open-Source Contributions

  • Contributed merged on-chain adapter fixes to DefiLlama: replaced SuperRare subgraph accounting and narrowed Rumpel Fluid position discovery to protocol-owned positions.
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Selected Repositories / Evidence

Public repositories that support the protocol, backend, interoperability, and developer-tooling work above.

ignite/cli ignite/network tendermint/spn atomone-hub/atomone atomone-hub/atomone-sdk cosmos/cosmos-sdk cosmos/ibc-go cosmos/gaia allinbits/vaas hermeznetwork/hermez-node trustwallet/blockatlas
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Teaching & Talks

FIAP · Blockchain Teacher · Mar 2018–May 2022

Taught Ethereum dApps with Angular, React and Solidity in MBA courses.

goBlockchain · Blockchain Instructor · Jan 2018–Aug 2019

Taught Ethereum smart contract courses and gave talks on Android and IoT integration.

Let's Code · Information Technology Teacher · Sep 2016–Jul 2019

Taught programming fundamentals and Java, plus blockchain and Ethereum smart contract development, at the school and in-company (including a well-known law firm).

Selected talks

Web3Family 2023, Barcelona — building Cosmos SDK chains and tooling with Ignite · AwesomWasm 2023, Berlin — Ignite stack workshop · ETH São Paulo 2021 — zk-SNARKs and Ethereum Layer 2.

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Education & Certifications

Education

Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Computer Science: six semesters completed. Electrical Engineering: eight semesters completed. Neither degree completed. São Paulo, Brazil.

Certifications

Data Science (Let's Code Academy, 2021, 48h) · Programming Blockchain (Jimmy Song, 2018, 16h) · Ethereum Blockchain Developer (goBlockchain, 2017, 16h) · Smart Contracts in Ethereum Blockchain (FIAP, 2017, 8h) · Blockchain Development (Finchain / Blockchain Brazil, 2017, 16h)

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