Andrea Raspitzu
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Raspitzu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, combining hands-on protocol work with practical product engineering. He contributed backend improvements to ACINQ's widely used eclair implementation—optimizing routing, channel capacity handling and API/TLV support—bringing deep expertise in decentralized payments. As founder and CTO of LOFT trading and a senior developer at ACINQ and Vandebron, he has led both startup and corporate engineering efforts across distributed systems and fintech. Based in Cagliari, Italy, he pairs a computer science foundation from Università degli Studi di Torino with a researcher’s attention to correctness, evidenced by meticulous fixes around timestamps, error handling and API parsing.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Sabanci UniversityBachelor's degree Scienze informatiche, Bachelor's degree Scienze informatiche at Università degli Studi di Torino
English
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Github Skills (12)
cryptocurrency10
routing-slip10
bitcoin10
api10
bitcoins10
routes10
apidoc10
lightning-network10
blockchain10
scala10
scalac6
maven6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ACINQ/eclair
May 2018 - Jul 2020
A scala implementation of the Lightning Network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:280 commits, 189 PRs, 1183 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Lightning Network implementation. They focused on optimizing routing algorithms, incorporating channel capacity considerations, and implementing features like Wumbo channels. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the API, including fixing parsing issues and expanding functionality to support user-defined TLVs. Several commits were focused on ensuring correct timestamp usage, API parameter handling, and ensuring proper error handling.
paymentslightningblockchainscalacryptocurrency
bitcoin-s/eclair
Mar 2019 - May 2020
A scala implementation of the Lightning Network.
Contributions:107 commits in 1 year 2 months
lightningblockchainscalalightning-networkbitcoin
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