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Yehonatan Cohen Scaly

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Yehonatan Cohen Scaly

Worked on the dwallet-labs/dwallet-network repository, delivering 23 features and resolving 8 bugs over eight months. Focused on secure, deterministic validator rotation and robust multi-party computation workflows, leveraging Rust, cryptography, and parallelism with Rayon. Enhanced protocol reliability by upgrading cryptographic dependencies, consolidating RNG logic, and modernizing protocol versions. Improved developer experience through local debugging scripts, documentation fixes, and reproducible builds. Addressed backward compatibility in cryptographic operations and strengthened observability with refined logging and metrics. Prioritized memory efficiency and security by optimizing in-memory data handling and deprecating legacy protocols, resulting in a more stable, scalable, and maintainable backend system.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

74%Features

Repository Contributions

59Total
Bugs
8
Commits
59
Features
23
Lines of code
21,878
Activity Months8

Work History

January 2026

1 Commits

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 (2026-01) monthly summary for the dwallet-network repository. Focused on stabilization and non-functional improvements by removing memory statistics logging to reduce runtime overhead and potential exposure of memory metrics. No new customer-facing features delivered this month; primary activity was a targeted bug fix/revert to disable memory logging across relevant components.

December 2025

9 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 — dwallet-network monthly update: Delivered protocol modernization, security hardening, and memory-optimization improvements that drive stability and scalability in MPC workflows. Key enhancements include deprecating older protocol versions (v1 and v2) in favor of v3 with improved configuration and release handling; crypto version bumped to 1.1.8 and reconfiguration bounds issues resolved. Security and performance improvements for MPC include logging malicious actors, storing Network Key Public Data once in memory, and patching inkrypto to wrap SetupParameters in Arc to prevent large deep clones; memory-usage instrumentation added for debugging. Impact: reduces legacy surface area, simplifies client upgrades, and delivers a more memory-efficient MPC path, enabling more validators and protocol rounds without runaway memory growth. Technologies demonstrated: Rust, Arc, Cargo patching, in-memory data management, and MPC security instrumentation.

November 2025

11 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 (2025-11) Monthly Summary for dwallet-network Key features delivered: - Backward-compatible cryptographic operations for DWallet: signature outputs, encryption key handling, key value deserialization, key verification, and v1 reconfiguration. Commits include 977da5bda6b67e34f8b8861effedd7bae92ce33e, 8ad57f4357ecf25da6956c7187f6b0c70451e8ee, adbe169ffc262fbe416223a8dee3ca8edcc1215a, 628e5c0b47fcca65a3a096daa545366e13005c58, 6251d2bffef7de6f3bb40e5ce92b2b97393f4321. - Observability and logging improvements for DWallet MPC: adds debug logging, log chunking, and improved traceability (consensus rejection logging and related build adjustments). Commits: 0c23cca87abc68f0290779bb2a628090ce69dc28, 1613a33629eee5ee2c4541525888438ffc507e89, e92d7f5635a4e9a5de9fb794e30dfad5897b14b8. - Dependency and version maintenance for cryptography and build: upgrade crypto-bigint, relax bound check, bump version to 1.1.7. Commits: cd34c4679e2ea81883ae52a179de15bf3d495134, d76d83df606a0c66825da2f42ea5fa8995b5a159, 1b00ecdcaa64c92a7adb2b7378a27b4aa8f246ba. Major bugs fixed: - Resolved backward-compatibility regressions in cryptographic operations; added missing encrypted key share verification in v1; corrected key value compatibility. - Observability fixes: addressed log-related issues and improved logging in MPC flow. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Safer upgrade path for crypto changes, with backward compatibility guarantees. - Improved observability and reliability in MPC workflows. - Release-ready crypto stack with up-to-date dependencies and clear versioning. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Cryptography compatibility engineering, key lifecycle handling - Dependency/version management and release readiness - Observability instrumentation (logging, log chunks, tracing) - Build and release engineering

October 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary for dwallet-network: Delivered key stability improvements and crypto reliability, reducing cross-version integration risk and strengthening security for wallet cryptography.

July 2025

28 Commits • 13 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 (dwallet-network) delivered robust MPC workflow improvements, RNG consolidation for security and maintainability, and notable enhancements to observability and reliability. The month focused on delivering business value through deterministic MPC progress, idempotent computation sessions, and safer parallel processing, while tightening crypto-version governance and log quality. The work laid groundwork for forward-compatible MPC messaging and improved end-user traceability across the network. Key features delivered: - MPC Session bootstrap from storage with readiness checks before advancing, and introduction of a deterministic RNG for advance steps, enabling reliable, reproducible MPC progress. - RNG consolidation: moved RNG logic to the cryptography library, removed epoch-dependent fields, and updated crypto versions for security and maintenance. - Refactor of event handling and cryptography computation; improved SessionIdentifier display (preimage value) with 0x-prefixed hex prints and minor renames to improve debugging and traceability. - Computation Sessions Persistence: persist completed computation session IDs to perpetual tables and ensure sessions are not re-run, preserving correctness and reducing wasted work. - Parallel computation with Rayon and encryption handling: parse network encryption key data inside rayon::spawn and ensure computations run in Rayon with logging performed outside worker threads for better performance and observability. - Additional reliability and observability improvements: added last pending checkpoint height metrics; standardization of logs (error field); future-proof MPC messages and extended DWalletMPCMessage fields to enable forward compatibility; Inkrypto integration and cargo.lock maintenance to keep dependencies secure and reproducible. - Maintenance and quality: cleaned up logs by removing needless prints, improved unit test message building logic, and fixed session ordering plus handling of end-of-epoch panics. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability and determinism of MPC workflows, reducing risk of inconsistent progress across nodes. - Improved security posture through RNG consolidation and crypto-version management, while enabling easier future cryptography upgrades. - Higher throughput via parallelization with Rayon, combined with safer encryption handling and better logging visibility. - Idempotent, auditable operations with persisted session IDs and standardized metrics/logs, enabling better operational monitoring and incident response. - Forward-looking MPC readiness with extended messaging capabilities and clearer session identifiers for debugging and support. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Rust, Rayon for data-parallelism, and cryptography/library integration for RNG consolidation. - Persistent storage patterns for idempotency and auditability (perpetual tables). - Logging standardization and metrics instrumentation (e.g., last pending checkpoint height). - Feature-driven refactoring and test-driven improvements (unit test messaging logic). - Dependency management and maintenance (Cargo.lock updates) and integration work for Inkrypto.

June 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for dwallet-network: Security hardening through cryptography dependency upgrades across multiple crates, delivering stronger cryptographic components and a hardened dependency graph. Two main upgrade streams were completed: - Cryptography-private upgrade across multiple crates to revision a4f08ea, with commits b6905bc434d954af3d16f136ca28c8923a9e861d, 0dbfe7e0815e1b2d038d45c7930e092687b5c6e6, 9530dd23ae00980211ef61a3a4cdac702033080d3, including a cargo.lock update to ensure reproducible builds. - Cryptography-related dependencies upgrade in dwallet-network (sha2, rand, k256, crypto-bigint, etc.) with commit e61e7fb21505211116cf452423a913b75af1806f, enhancing security, performance, and compatibility. Overall, the work reduces attack surface, improves cryptographic reliability, and positions the project for faster secure feature delivery.

May 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance summary for dwallet-network: Delivered improvements to local debugging workflows and documentation quality to shorten issue reproduction cycles and onboarding time. Focused on business value by enabling faster local testing, reducing workload on support/docs, and enhancing resource accessibility. Demonstrated strong shell scripting capabilities, careful documentation practices, and disciplined version control.

April 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025: Focused on security and determinism in validator rotation for dwallet-network. Delivered a cryptographically secure and deterministic validator shuffle by switching to ChaCha20Rng for shuffle_by_stake_from_seed, implemented in commit 81a2b4b6db06cc2e9def6c49074d7f65165a0408. No major bugs were reported this month. The change improves security, reproducibility, and reliability of validator selection, delivering business value by reducing operational risk and ensuring predictable performance across environments. Technologies demonstrated include ChaCha20Rng (rand_chacha), seed-based deterministic algorithms, and Rust cryptography patterns.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.0%
Maintainability88.2%
Architecture88.8%
Performance86.8%
AI Usage25.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

MarkdownPythonRustShellTOMLYAML

Technical Skills

API DesignAsynchronous ProgrammingBackend DevelopmentCI/CDCargoCode CleanupCode FormattingCode LintingCode RefactoringConcurrencyConsensus ProtocolsCryptographyData StructuresDatabase ManagementDebugging

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

dwallet-labs/dwallet-network

Apr 2025 Jan 2026
8 Months active

Languages Used

RustMarkdownShellPythonYAMLTOML

Technical Skills

CryptographyDependency ManagementRustDebuggingDocumentationLocal Development Setup