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Software Engineer passionate about open source, user agency, decentralization, identity, and building impactful tools and products. I have experience in peer-to-peer and content-addressed networks, and now focus on enabling developers integrate decentralized identity wallets into their platforms. Always eager to learn and tackle new challenges.
💼 Experience
- Integrating the latest verifiable credential standards in Credo’s TypeScript ecosystem of open source libraries, such as OpenID for Verifiable Credentials and W3C Verifiable Credentials.
- Building digital identity and verifiable credential solutions, such as Paradym’s SaaS platform for issuance and verification of digital credentials; and Paradym Wallet, enabling users to store their own credentials.
- Developed a platform to enable developers to retrieve verifiable credentials from multiple identity wallets into their online platforms using a single integration, using open standards, in TypeScript.
- Integrated verification of digital identity wallets built on both proprietary APIs, and on open standards, such as OpenID for Verifiable Presentations, SD-JWT and mDoc.
- Led the development of new features for the largest and most widely used implementation and set of libraries of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized, P2P, and content-addressed network, in Go. Co-authored and maintained specialized services to bridge HTTP and P2P systems.
- Co-authored and implemented specifications for different HTTP services in Go and TypeScript. Authored hundreds of conformance tests to test whether different implementations comply with the specifications.
- Co-authored Testground, a testing, benchmarking and simulation platform for decentralized and P2P systems at scale, in Go. Led the development of the JavaScript SDK and the Go synchronization service.
- Revamped and shipped IPFS Web UI, a React-based web application used as a front-end for a node in an IPFS network, where users can manage their files, explore linked data, and see their peers.
- Led the development of IPFS Desktop, an Electron-based desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux. Owned the refactoring, redesign and feature development of the application.
- Prepared materials, gave practical classes and helped students in a Deep Learning course.
- Mentored 12 new master students from different nationalities during their first semester.
🎓 Education
- Awarded an Academic Merit Award in 2 years.
🛠️ Projects
- Author, maintainer and contributor of several open source projects.
- Creator of File Browser, a Go and Vue.js self-hosted file hosting service. It has more than 30K stars on GitHub and over 100M downloads across different platforms. Now community maintained.
- Building and maintaining my personal website, which receives over 10K unique visitors per month.
- Built Eagle, a custom backend in Go, to experiment with different ideas over time, such as ActivityPub, Webmentions, Tailscale and other integrations with third party services, etc.
🌟 Volunteering
- Helping train people with limited access to education to become web developers, by reviewing assignments and answering questions in the topics of JavaScript, Browsers, Node.js, APIs and Databases.
- Designed and produced sticker and Instagram publicity campaigns, as part of the PR committee.
- Maintained the WordPress-based website, as part of the Website Committee.
- Mentored groups of new students two years in a row, during their first weeks at the university.
- Helped organize a mentorship-driven program to connect mentors with first-time entrepreneurs.
- Built a REST API for managing e-mail transactions, newsletters and program enrollments, in Go.
- Created a Slack integration for managing program enrollments directly from a Slack channel, in Go.
- Built a web application for managing newsletter and program enrollments in React.
- Wrote over 400 tutorials, tech news and other articles on both Pplware and Pplware Kids.
- Published a 60 page e-book on how to program in C for beginners when I was 15 years old.
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