Alexander Peters
Maintainer at orelay.dev
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Peters is a maintainer and seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building distributed systems, cloud-native platforms and blockchain tooling from Berlin. He blends deep Go backend expertise with Docker, Kubernetes and security practices, and has made notable open-source contributions to Cosmos projects like gravity-bridge and CosmWasm/wasmd—implementing bridge attestations, REST/query endpoints and improving wasm contract handling. As a long-time freelancer and current maintainer at orelay.dev, he focuses on pragmatic, test-driven refactors and API design that simplify complex stateful flows. Comfortable across platform engineering and decentralized systems, he often surfaces subtle improvements—such as signature validation and batch transaction models—that reduce operational risk in production.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur Technical Computer Science, Diplom-Ingenieur Technical Computer Science at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts
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Github Skills (21)
cosmos-sdk10
apidoc10
testing10
go-testing10
go10
api10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
rest-api9
cryptography8
ethereum8
cloud-control6
pprof6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
CosmWasm/wasmd
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Basic Cosmos SDK application with WebAssembly smart contracts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 571 reviews, 328 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the wasmd repository, a cosmos-sdk app utilizing WebAssembly smart contracts. Their work focused on improving the codebase through better decoupling, interface usage, and by providing access to contract address builders, specifically within the x/wasm package. The user also implemented features related to handling and processing messages, including the ability to store contract responses in events. Furthermore, they enhanced the testing framework by adding test cases for code compilation, submessage handling, and contract operations.
cosmos-sdksmart-contractswebassemblygolang
cosmos/gravity-bridge
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
A CosmosSDK application for moving assets on and off of EVM based, POW chains
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on refactoring and adding features to the `x/peggy` module within the `cosmos/gravity-bridge` repository. Their contributions involved implementing endpoints for the bridge's REST API, adding query functionalities, and handling Ethereum bridge event attestations. The user made significant changes to the modules internal structures by adding signature validations and by incorporating batch-based transactions and related operations.
cosmos-sdkevm
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