Andrew Battat
Software Engineer at DFINITY
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Battat is a software engineer with 13 years of experience focused on distributed systems, custom OS development, and blockchain protocols, currently contributing at DFINITY. He combines deep systems-level expertise with practical blockchain pedagogy—having designed and taught UCLA’s first for-credit blockchain elective and led Blockchain at UCLA from a handful of students to a 100+ person community. His background includes building cross-chain interoperability prototypes at Oracle and hands-on smart contract and Hyperledger Fabric work, alongside open-source tooling such as a PHP email verification library. Comfortable across low-level systems and applied blockchain engineering, he brings both production-grade coding and curriculum-building experience to complex distributed problems.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (6)
php10
object-oriented-programming10
email-validation10
api-design9
webscraping8
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hbattat/verifyEmail
Mar 2014 - Oct 2022
PHP class that can be easily used to verify an email address and make sure it is valid and does exist on the mail server. For a supported option please visit the site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 42 commits, 6 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the development of a PHP class for email verification. Their work included creating the initial function and refactoring it into an object-oriented class structure. The user implemented a specific validation method for Yahoo emails and another for Hotmail. Additionally, the user improved the code by optimizing the logic for email domain extraction and debug information.
email-addressgmail-apiaddressoptionmail
hbattat/moodle-a2fa
Nov 2014 - Aug 2019
Étouffée - Two-factor authentication for Moodle. Google Authentication for Moodle
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
authenticationfactortwo-factorfactor-authenticationtwo-factor-authentication
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