Alex Chapman
Ethereum Frontiersmen at Self-employed
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Chapman is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in blockchain and game systems, currently exploring EVM-compatible ecosystems as an independent developer. He has held senior and lead roles at Coinbase, Augur, Blizzard, and Riot, blending backend engineering, Solidity smart contract development, and large-scale game/data platform work. An active open-source contributor, Alex has maintained core pieces of pyethereum—address bug fixes, performance memoization, and state initialization—demonstrating deep familiarity with cryptocurrency internals. He pairs rigorous computer science and mathematics training with practical DevOps and production-grade engineering from early CMS and ETL projects. Based in Las Vegas, he brings a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach to emerging blockchain frontiers, favoring measured experimentation that balances innovation with reliability.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Double in Mathematics & Computer Science, Bachelors Double in Mathematics & Computer Science at University of Mary WashingtonLausanne Collegiate
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
cryptocurrency10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
python10
ethereum10
blockchain10
version-control9
git9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/pyethereum
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Next generation cryptocurrency network
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `pyethereum` project, a cryptocurrency network. Their contributions included bug fixes, specifically addressing address-related issues, and version bumping across the project. They also incorporated merges from other branches and implemented memoization for performance optimization of a function. The user was involved with setting up the initial state of the project.
next-generationblockchaincryptocryptocurrencybitcoin
nuevoalex/nuevoalex.github.io
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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