Aidan Salzmann
Co-Founder at Stride Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Salzmann is a Co-Founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and product for Web3 and machine learning systems, currently focused on liquid staking and DeFi in the Cosmos ecosystem. He led core module and interchain-account work on Stride’s multichain staking platform and contributed front-end integrations for Osmosis’ liquidity features, showing fluency across back-end blockchain modules and user-facing interfaces. Prior roles span product engineering at Humu and hands-on ML work at a small startup where he built an SRGAN-based pipeline to upscale video, reflecting a blend of product-driven development and research experimentation. He began exploring neural nets and visualization in VR research at UC Berkeley, which informs his habit of making complex systems more understandable. Based in New York, he combines startup grit with open-source collaboration, repeatedly shipping foundational scaffolding rather than only surface features. Notably, his work often touches low-level protocol setup and feature-flagged UI additions, demonstrating both systems thinking and product pragmatism.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Science, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
English, German
Github Skills (14)
bc10
cosmos-sdk10
typescript10
nextjs10
go10
typescripts10
tailwindcss10
react10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
cosmos9
osmosis9
nodejs8
trpc7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Stride-Labs/stride
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Stride: Multichain Liquid Staking
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 887 reviews, 932 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aidan's commits primarily focus on setting up the core infrastructure and initial module scaffolding for the project, Stride, a multichain liquid staking platform. They are responsible for initializing the chain, creating modules for stakeibc, and integrating interchain accounts. The work also involved setting up various parameters for the modules, and setting up a basic module handler, indicating involvement in setting up the base infrastructure for core stakeibc modules.
liquid-stakingstakingconsensusethereumliquid
osmosis-labs/osmosis-frontend
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Web interface for Osmosis Zone
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Osmosis Zone web interface. Their work involved adding and updating gauge configurations, specifically focusing on integrating new token pairs for liquidity pools. These changes modified the `feature-flag.ts` file, indicating the addition of new gauges to enable features for different token pairs. This suggests a focus on enabling and integrating new trading features within the application.
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