Brandon Vrooman
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBrandon Vrooman is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance systems across blockchain, fintech, and game development. As founder/operator of Innobit he has architected end-to-end distributed backends and smart contract integrations, driving over US$1M in contract revenue for startups including Fuel Labs and ChainML. He brings deep systems expertise in C++, Rust, memory management, and runtime optimization—skills honed at Ubisoft on AAA rendering pipelines and applied to Fuel Labs’ Merkle tree and VM work and a Rust full-node implementation. Comfortable across the full stack, Brandon has delivered scalable APIs and CI-driven QA systems that supported hundreds of thousands of users and millions of daily requests. Known for a curiosity-driven, detail-oriented approach, he combines low-level performance tuning with product-minded engineering to turn complex distributed protocols into reliable production services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) Game Development and Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) Game Development and Entrepreneurship at Ontario Tech University
English, French
Github Skills (7)
transaction10
transactional10
rust10
merkle-tree10
fuel10
blockchain10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FuelLabs/fuel-core
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 310 reviews, 26 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the back-end implementation of the Fuel core, focusing on the executor and transaction pool. They implemented features such as in-memory Merkle trees, handling of transaction pool message collisions, and renaming of data structures. The contributions involved modifying core components of the Fuel v2 protocol and refactoring test cases.
rustfull-nodefuelblockchain
galfire/tovarisch
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
3D graphics engine for the web
Contributions:48 PRs, 94 pushes, 49 branches in 1 year 8 months
graphics-enginewebgljavascript3d-graphics-enginethreejs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.