Shielded Labs is excited to announce that Phillip Trudeau-Tavara (@philliptrudeau) is joining as an engineer. Phillip is based in Europe and brings substantial network programming experience that will strengthen our engineering capabilities. He will be contributing to our core projects, including the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), Crosslink, and Dynamic Fees.
Last month, Phillip volunteered to help implement Tenderlink, our lightweight Rust-based implementation of the Tendermint consensus protocol. Tenderlink replaces Malachite and improves stability, reduces technical debt, and removes reliance on upstream development. It also gives us greater control over performance optimizations. Phillip worked with Sam and Andrew to implement the core Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol, reduce unnecessary network traffic in the gossip layer, and resolve block re-sync issues ahead of the recent Crosslink workshop.
Prior to joining Shielded Labs, Phillip worked as a networking engineer at All Out Games, where he led network programming for an online social gaming platform. Before that, he worked with @azmr on WhiteBox, a live timeline debugger that provides developers with real-time visibility into program behavior. His contributions included user interface and performance improvements, building core components such as a custom C expression parser and multi-tab source viewer, and implementing infrastructure to support high-DPI rendering and responsive UI scaling.
Phillip’s addition brings Shielded Labs to eight full-time contributors, plus @spectre supporting operations part-time. We’re building a strong team of skilled engineers who work well together and maintain momentum across all our core projects. We’re excited about the progress ahead and the positive impact Shielded Labs will have on the Zcash ecosystem.
Welcome to Shielded Labs, Phillip! We appreciate your help implementing Tenderlink and are glad to have you as part of the team.