Alex Roan
Co-Founder & CTO at Cyfrin
Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Roan is a Principal Software Architect and serial founder based in Wales with a decade of professional experience building production applications across web, enterprise, and blockchain domains. He led smart contract development at Chainlink Labs, contributing core Operator contract features and tests to a high-profile decentralized oracle project, and continues to design decentralised systems using Truffle, Web3 and Infura. As co-founder of two startups and now architecting at a stealth AI venture, he blends hands-on Solidity and full-stack React/Redux development with product-focused delivery using Scrum and Kanban. His background spans from enterprise risk solutions to startups, giving him a pragmatic mix of formal engineering discipline and rapid innovation. An unusual strength is his track record of moving on-chain code from testnets to production while maintaining rigorous testing and linting standards.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Engineering (with integrated industrial year), Master's Degree Software Engineering (with integrated industrial year) at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
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Github Skills (8)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain10
unit-testing9
go7
docker6
psql6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:209 reviews, 633 commits, 155 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily focused on the implementation of smart contract code for a decentralized oracle network, particularly within the Chainlink repository. They introduced new features by adding events and tests for the core Operator contract. Further changes included the application of code linting rules and correction of related errors in smart contract code files.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
alexroan/easy-ether
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Buy Ether directly into your wallet and earn interest using Compound Finance liquidity pool.
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 months
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