
Software Engineer / Researcher / Ethereum Core Dev
Berlin, Germany
Ethereum Core Developer with experience at the Ethereum Foundation (2016โ2025) working on EVM Object Format, evmone, go-ethereum, and WebAssembly interpreter fizzy. Lead Security Researcher at Spearbit reviewing EVM implementations. Background in C++, systems programming, and blockchain protocol development.
Ethereum Foundation
Dec 2016 โ Sept 2025
2021-2025 Ipsilon team: Worked on EVM Object Format proposals - designing, speccing out, prototyping, testing. Maintained evmone and EVMC, implemented EIPs for upcoming network upgrades. Contributed to go-ethereum: EVM optimizations, Ipsilon EIP implementations, EOF prototypes. 2020-2021 Ewasm team: Built fizzy, fast WebAssembly interpreter. Contributed to the official WebAssembly test suite. 2016-2019 cpp-ethereum/aleth: Maintained consensus-critical code, EVM, precompiles, networking code, syncing, JSON-RPC. Refactored legacy code, improved unit test coverage. Supported Parity Warp sync protocol. Implemented EIPs; aleth was critical for generation of Ethereum consensus tests till Muir Glacier fork (2020).
Magellan GPS
Sept 2012 โ Oct 2016
Built REST API for cloud storage (PHP, MySQL, Linux); prototyped in Ruby on Rails with JS front-end. Contributed to platform code (C++, cross-platform); implemented features in iOS app (Objective-C). Refactored C++ back-end library for binary map skin format. Worked on business logic and UI for map-building software (C++, MFC, C#). Led code reviews for map viewer tool (C++, Qt, COM). Developed QGIS plugin to export projects to Magellan format (Python).
Acronis
Jan 2008 โ Jul 2012
Developed server-side business logic for backup/archive management, policies, and process control in a distributed, cross-platform environment (Visual C++, gcc). Contributed to macOS backup solution: business logic and low-level file/directory backup handling. Projects: Acronis Backup (Enterprise), True Image for macOS.
Software Technologies
Jun 2004 โ Dec 2007
Maptech Inc. โ Developed POI rendering subsystem and trip computer UI (Visual C++, COM, GDI+, multithreading). ESRI Inc. โ Built COM API for custom extensions; implemented object serialization to MS Access (Visual C++, MFC, ArcObjects).
Engineer ยท Software Engineering
1999 โ 2004