Alexandre Van De Sande
Director Of The ENS Foundation
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Van De Sande is a designer-turned-software leader with 11 years building user-facing Ethereum products and startups from Rio de Janeiro. As Founder and current Director of the ENS Foundation he combines hands-on frontend and backend development with product design, guiding projects from investor presentations to implementation. He’s a prolific open-source contributor to flagship Ethereum projects like Mist, ethereum.org and ENS core, improving UX, smart-contract logic and integrations such as Coinbase and ENS support. His background spans founding UX-centric ventures (UniLogin, Dujour) and leading design teams, giving him rare fluency in both visual craft and core blockchain mechanics. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions that bridge human needs and machine constraints, he describes his work aptly as “preventing human machine conflicts.”
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Product and Graphic Design Major, Design, Product and Graphic Design Major, Design at Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroInternship in Paris, France, Digital Design Lab, Internship in Paris, France, Digital Design Lab at Ecole Nationalle Superieure de Creation IndustrielleiLearn
English, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
solidity10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
web3js10
ethereum10
blockchain10
pug10
html10
smart-contracts10
templating10
react10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/ethereum-org
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
[ARCHIVED] ethereum.org website from 2016-2019. See https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website for current version.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily worked on updating and maintaining the website's asset downloads and content. Their contributions focused on updating links, fixing spacing issues, and migrating from Jade to Pug, indicating a focus on templating and front-end presentation. The commits also involved publishing the latest changes, indicating a role in the deployment and upkeep of the website's content.
ethereum
ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet
Feb 2015 - Oct 2018
This is an archived repository of one of the early Ethereum wallets.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre contributed to the development of the Ethereum Dapp Wallet, implementing features and addressing issues across both the front-end and back-end components. Their work included removing legacy code, fixing UI display issues, and integrating ENS support for improved usability. The user also made adjustments to the Coinbase integration and refactored code to improve functionality and address bugs.
ethereum-wallet
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