Ben Sparks
Senior Blockchain Engineer at FastLane Labs
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolBen Sparks is a Senior Blockchain Engineer based in Dubai with six years of hands-on experience building and testing smart contract systems. He has held senior roles at Aave and FastLane Labs and led Solidity development at Linum Labs, blending technical leadership with deep protocol work. Ben contributes to notable open-source projects like Lens Protocol, where he improved Solidity test coverage and hardened collect functionality across edge cases. His background in full-stack development gives him a practical end-to-end perspective on building dApps and developer tooling. Trained originally in finance at the University of Cape Town, he brings a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to smart contract design. Colleagues describe him as a meticulous engineer who enjoys turning tricky protocol invariants into reliable, well-tested code.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Science (B.Bus.Sci), Finance, Bachelor of Business Science (B.Bus.Sci), Finance at University of Cape TownReddam House
Github Skills (7)
foundry10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
test-automation10
testing10
blockchain9
ethereum9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lens-protocol/core
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
The Lens Protocol
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on developing and testing core functionalities within the Lens Protocol. Their contributions include writing and refining Solidity tests, especially for the collect functionality, which included tests for collect, collect mirror, executor, and with signature scenarios. They added necessary data types and helper functions for testing the collect mechanism and made updates to address various edge cases. The user also improved test coverage, adding tests to ensure proper event emission and address different potential scenarios in the protocol.
lens-protocolblockchainweb3memgraphlens
BenSparksCode/python-code-problems
May 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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