Chad Ostrowski
Founder & Caretaker at Entire.Life
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Ostrowski is a founder and engineering leader with 15 years building web and blockchain products, currently stewarding Scientific Animism while leading developer-focused efforts at Aha Labs. He blends product vision and empathic communication with deep hands-on expertise in Rust, TypeScript, smart contracts and WebAssembly, having contributed to NEAR’s SDKs, wallet, tooling and example NFT contracts. Chad has a track record of architecting developer-facing frameworks (Loam) and improving testing and CI for blockchain projects, plus prior leadership in startups and consulting across full-stack JavaScript and Ruby on Rails. He’s comfortable moving between product, docs, and low-level protocol work—often simplifying developer experience and testability in complex systems. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs practical R&D and sales/talent responsibilities with public-facing technical writing and community-building. An interesting throughline: he’s as invested in clarity and pedagogy (curriculum design, docs) as he is in shipping production-grade decentralised apps.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Science, Engineering Science at Penn State University
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Github Skills (46)
markdown10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
nearprotocol10
testing10
rspec10
contract10
rails10
rust-wasm10
wasm-pack10
redux10
ruby10
markdown-it10
sdk10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
near/create-near-app
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Create a starter app hooked up to the NEAR blockchain
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 45 reviews, 146 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily focused on improving the create-near-app project. They refactored and rebuilt the vanilla and React frontends, adding new features like a form to enter greetings. They also addressed build and deployment issues, including updating the Rust frontends and making sure the CI builds are streamlined. Additionally, the user updated documentation and project structure, moving README files and making build processes more efficient.
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near-examples/NFT
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Example implementations of tokens to represent unique assets, such as collectibles or deeds, using the NEP-171 spec (similar to ERC-721)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 9 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chad is primarily focused on developing the back-end logic for a non-fungible token (NFT) implementation. They are working with AssemblyScript, writing tests, and implementing functions related to token management, such as minting, transferring, and managing escrow. The commits show the user refactoring the code to align with a specific NEP standard and adding error handling. They're actively modifying core contract functions and unit tests, demonstrating an understanding of smart contract development within the NEAR ecosystem.
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