Benjamin Bollen
Founder at KTTP
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolBenjamin Bollen is a founder and decentralized-systems engineer with 11 years of experience building pro-social technology that fosters meaningful human interaction, currently leading KTTP from Lisbon. His background blends physics and research (doctoral work in quantum field theory) with hands-on blockchain and P2P engineering—contributions include lead development on Hyperledger Burrow and core work on the SAFE project's Kademlia DHT. He has driven protocol design and launches at Circles UBI and helped bring Ethereum to mainstream audiences as Chief Blockchain Strategist at Open Simple Token. Comfortable moving between low-level distributed systems, privacy-preserving architectures, and product strategy, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic implementation. An understated detail: his open-source interests explicitly span physics, decentralized computing, privacy and AI, reflecting a research-minded approach to building social infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Physics, B.Sc. Physics at University of AntwerpM.Sc. Physics and Astronomy, M.Sc. Physics and Astronomy at Ghent University
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (3)
blockchain10
go10
testing9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/burrow
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/burrow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 455 commits, 282 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the Burrow blockchain project by implementing version upgrades, addressing existing code issues and making changes to unit tests. The user addressed issues in the handling of transaction and call, as well as fixing an exception. These modifications involved the upgrade of existing tools and addressing bugs in the existing code base and, thus, likely indicates back-end development efforts.
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benjaminbollen/maidsafe_vault
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:27 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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