Jolene Dunne

Summary

I'm an independent software engineer and researcher, currently focusing on core Ethereum research and development.

My work uses empirical methods such as simulation, instrumentation, and data analysis to inform protocol design and architectural decisions.

I hold a BA (Mod.) and MCS Computer Science from the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin.

LinkedIn | GitHub

Industry Experience

• [2022 - 2023] Researcher, Flashbots
• [2019 - 2021] Senior Software Engineer, twosense.ai
• [2018 - 2019] Engineering Manager, Flexera
• [2017 - 2018] Senior Research Engineer, Queen's University Belfast
• [2016 - 2017] Software Engineer, Proofpoint
• [2015 - 2016] Software Engineer, Morgan Stanley
• [2014 - 2016] Software Engineer, First Derivatives

Public Speaking

• Ethereum Devcon, Bogota – “Evaluating the PBS Experiment” (October 2022)
• Encode MEV Hackathon – “Post-Merge Flashbots” (September 2022)
• PyCon Dublin – “Securing Microservices at Scale with oAuth2” (November 2018)
• BelFOSS – “Privacy-First Email Threat Prevention” (January 2017)

Writing

• Beginner’s Guide to mev-boost (June 2022)
• Ethereum Witness Review (November 2021)

Contact

You can email me at "first name" DOT "last name" AT gmail DOT com.