Brice Dobry
Staff Engineer at Stacks Labs
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolBrice Dobry is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of systems and blockchain-focused software experience, currently helping drive technical direction at Stacks Labs out of Baltimore. He combines deep low-level expertise—compiler and VM work dating back to roles as a compiler and system software engineer—with modern blockchain engineering, contributing critical Clarity VM and smart-contract testing features to the Stacks ecosystem. At Hiro and in prominent open-source projects like stacks-core and Clarinet he implemented analysis passes, debugging support, parser versioning, and block-processing logic that improved Clarity 3 compatibility and developer tooling. He also volunteers as a Technology Director, signaling a commitment to mentorship and community impact beyond shipping code. Known for pragmatic, test-first development, Brice blends rigorous documentation and tooling improvements with hands-on back-end and full-stack contributions that make complex blockchain primitives more accessible to developers.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Delaware
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
smart-contracts10
back-end-development10
blockchain10
database-design9
toml8
ios6
appstore6
clarity6
iphone6
appstoreconnect6
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
front-end-development3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/stacks-core
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The Stacks blockchain implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2105 reviews, 219 commits, 389 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Brice primarily contributed to the back-end implementation of the Stacks blockchain, focusing on the Clarity VM. They added documentation for Clarity functions like `stacks-block-height` and `tenure-height`, and made changes to support Clarity 3. They also implemented logic related to tenure height and integrated the concept into block processing. Furthermore, they made code improvements related to block validation and the handling of microblocks.
appsblockstackdnsrustserverless
hirosystems/clarinet
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Write, test and deploy high-quality smart contracts to the Stacks blockchain and Bitcoin.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer (Clarity Smart Contract & Frontend focus)
Full-stack Developer (Clarity Smart Contract & Frontend focus)Contributions:304 reviews, 128 commits, 146 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brice primarily contributed to the testing and development of Clarity smart contracts, focusing on the "check-checker" analysis pass. They added and updated tests for various Clarity code patterns, including those using potentially unchecked data transfers, conditional logic, and filtered expressions. Additionally, the user implemented functionality to select the parser version and added settings for the REPL's analysis passes in the `Clarinet.toml` file. The user also introduced the command to generate shell completions and implemented support for the DAP debugger.
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