Balázs Faragó
Software Engineer at OPSWAT
Dunakeszi, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolBalázs Faragó is a C# software engineer with six years of experience who has moved from intensive training to production work on privacy-focused Bitcoin software and now contributes at OPSWAT. He spent three years at zkSNACKs as a back-end developer on WalletWasabi, an influential open-source non-custodial Bitcoin wallet, where he improved transaction and coin management logic to strengthen user privacy and performance. Comfortable leading teams, he ran weekly team meetings and organized company events, demonstrating practical project and people management beyond coding. Hands-on with master/PR workflows and clean commit practices, he brings strong algorithmic thinking and a growth mindset to complex, security-sensitive systems. Based in Dunakeszi, Hungary, he combines backend engineering, client-side business logic experience, and public speaking—having presented at Mallorca Blockchain Days—making him effective at translating technical work into community impact.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Advance, Computer Software Engineering, Advance, Computer Software Engineering at Codecool
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
csharp10
blockchain10
dotnet-core10
bitcoin-wallet10
nbitcoin9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Open-source, non-custodial, privacy preserving Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:479 reviews, 421 commits, 175 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Balázs primarily worked on back-end code related to the Bitcoin wallet, focusing on fixing a bug related to the decrease of the anonymity set after a coinjoin. The commits show the modification of several core files, including those related to transaction processing and coin management within the wallet. They also introduced changes for improving the overall performance and reliability of the wallet's processing logic.
walletwasabinbitcoincoinbitcoin-wallet
Szpoti/WalletWasabi
Mar 2021 - May 2024
Open-source, non-custodial, privacy focused Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Built-in Tor, CoinJoin, and coin control features.
Contributions:1 PR, 827 pushes, 251 branches in 3 years 2 months
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