Clara Van Staden
Senior Software Engineer Blockchain Engineer at Clara Create
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolClara Van Staden is a senior software and blockchain engineer with over a decade of commercial development experience, specializing in Go and Rust. She currently contributes to Snowbridge at Snowfork, building a trustless Ethereum–Polkadot bridge and adding critical Parity Polkadot SDK functionality around finalized headers and message queues. Her background spans progressive backend roles from GoDaddy to Globetom, demonstrating depth in scalable systems and production-grade engineering. Clara holds a B.IT with distinction from the University of Pretoria and pairs technical rigor with creative ventures as the owner and artist of Clara Create. Notably, she maintains an on-chain presence (Polkadot address) and commits to open-source interoperability work that sits at the intersection of Ethereum and Polkadot tooling.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool PretoriaUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (8)
substrate10
polkadot-js10
rust10
polkadot10
ethereum10
blockchain10
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/polkadot-sdk
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:213 reviews, 69 PRs, 294 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Clara contributed to the `paritytech/polkadot-sdk` repository by adding and updating Snowbridge functionalities. Their commits primarily involve changes related to the Ethereum client and the inbound queue. They focused on updating versions, preparing for upgrades, and implementing checks to ensure the integrity of finalized headers, and fixed issues related to processing outbound messages.
blockchaincumuluspolkadotsubstrate
Snowfork/runtimes
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
The various runtimes which make up the core subsystems of networks for which the Fellowship is represented.
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 189 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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