Andreas Brekken
Founder at SideShift AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Brekken is a founder and software engineer with 13 years building crypto infrastructure, exchanges, and developer tooling from San Francisco. He founded SideShift.ai and earlier co-founded Justcoin (sold to ANX) where he built the full platform and implemented the first JavaScript hierarchical deterministic Bitcoin wallet for thousands of users. An active advisor to Kraken and Bitcoin.com, Andreas blends hands-on backend engineering—contributing fixes and Bitcoin address functionality to the widely used bitcoinjs-lib—with product and trading infrastructure experience. He also runs Shitcoin.com as a blockchain reviewer and has a track record of founding and exiting consumer and wiki businesses. Known for shipping pragmatic, security-conscious systems, he pairs open-source contributions with practical exchange and payments expertise.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Oslo
English, Norwegian, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
bip3210
bitcoin10
javascript10
bitcoins10
cryptography9
nodejs9
base589
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib
Jan 2014 - Jun 2014
A javascript Bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the `bitcoinjs-lib` repository by modifying and refactoring the `src/bip32.js` and `src/eckey.js` files, along with other supporting files. Their changes involved fixing references, removing unused imports, and improving code formatting. They also added functionality for Bitcoin address generation and corrected methods within the codebase, demonstrating a focus on core library functionality and maintenance.
browsersnode-jsjavascriptbitcoinjsbitcoinjs-lib
abrkn/pg-test
Oct 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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