How Pearster built QuickNode a senior infrastructure team with zero attrition and 35% lower cost
Seven senior engineers embedded since 2025, and still there today. In a market where blockchain specialists move on constantly, Pearster gave one of the industry's fastest-moving platforms the depth it could keep.
The partnership
Pearster began working with QuickNode in 2025. What started small grew into a team of seven senior infrastructure, security, and operations engineers embedded across the company's platform. In an industry where specialists change jobs constantly and institutional knowledge walks out the door with them, not one of those engineers has left. The people who learned QuickNode's environment at the start are the same ones running and improving it today. In blockchain infrastructure, that kind of continuity is rare, and it compounds.
Where things stood
QuickNode moves fast. Growth at that pace puts pressure on the systems underneath it, and the company needed senior people who could take ownership of critical infrastructure immediately, not after months of ramp-up. The talent market made that hard. The specialists who can operate blockchain infrastructure at scale are scarce, expensive, and prone to moving on. QuickNode needed depth it could keep.
What Pearster did
Pearster placed engineers who were productive from the first weeks, some resolving critical cluster failures within their first fortnight, and then let them own the work end to end. Over the partnership, that team took on four areas that matter most to a fast-growing infrastructure company.
They stabilized the platform. Engineers took ownership of shaky, long-neglected components, modernized how the infrastructure monitored its own health, and cut the constant alert noise that had been pulling the operations team off higher-value work. Systems that used to generate recurring complaints became reliable.
They scaled it. The team led the company's blockchain network migrations and built internal tooling to make those migrations repeatable rather than one-off, so infrastructure could keep pace with the business instead of lagging behind it.
They secured it. Pearster engineers raised the company's security maturity through automated compliance, container and cluster hardening, and stronger vulnerability management, and ran the coordination for external security assessments and the responsible-disclosure program.
They pushed it forward. Beyond keeping the lights on, the team helped launch a new validator service line, contributed automation that reduced manual operational load, and brought forward original projects at company events and internal hackathons.
That last point isn't a footnote. When QuickNode ran its 2026 internal AI Hackathon, Pearster engineers took first place. Four of the seven placed as winners, a fifth earned an honorable mention, and all five walked away with prizes. Set against QuickNode's own full-time engineers, on QuickNode's own turf, the people Pearster placed didn't just keep pace. They led.
What changed
Senior talent that delivered from day one, in some cases resolving critical infrastructure failures within their first two weeks.
A measurably more stable, observable, and secure platform, with fewer recurring incidents and less operational noise.
A repeatable migration capability that lets infrastructure scale with the business.
A new validator service line that expanded what QuickNode can offer its own customers.
35% lower cost than the equivalent full-time hires, without trading down on seniority.
Zero attrition, which meant zero re-hiring, zero re-ramping, and a team that kept getting deeper rather than resetting. Several Pearster engineers became the internal reference points and de facto technical leads for their domains.
We are extremely happy with Pearster and their talent. We even had an internal AI hackathon, and our Pearster resources made a great showing, winning first place.
What's next
The team continues to scale alongside QuickNode's growth, deepening automation and bringing AI-driven analysis further into day-to-day operations to take routine load off engineers and keep the platform ahead of demand.