Conor Svensson
Founder And CEO at Web3 Labs
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarConor Svensson is a London-based technical founder with 11+ years building developer tools and infrastructure for the next-generation internet, most notably authoring Web3j in 2016 — the JVM Ethereum integration library that now sits as a Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust project and sees millions of downloads monthly. He leads Web3 Labs, where he focuses on Enscribe (a human-readable naming layer built on ENS) and Chainlens analytics, while also maintaining enterprise-grade clients like Web3j and Hyperledger Besu. His background spans a decade of low-latency trading systems at banks including UBS, Deutsche Bank and ANZ, giving him deep expertise in high-performance, production-critical systems. Conor blends standards leadership — formerly chairing the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance technical group and serving on Baseline and InterWork governance bodies — with hands-on engineering and open-source stewardship. Recently he’s been exploring agentic engineering and the impact of AI on the software development lifecycle, writing about this at conorsvensson.com. An author of The Blockchain Innovator’s Handbook, he combines technical credibility with a knack for translating blockchain capabilities to corporate strategy.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,191reputation
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14answers
1question
maven
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
apidoc10
testing10
java10
javas10
api10
ethereum9
android9
maven9
blockchain8
solidity7
smart-contracts7
eclipse6
maven-compiler-plugin6
log4j6
yahoo-finance6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
LFDT-web3j/web3j
Sep 2016 - Jul 2021
Lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:50 releases, 6 reviews, 541 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Conor's commits indicate the addition and support of API calls. The code differences point to the implementation of tests that use mock responses to test API calls, particularly in relation to a set of API calls in a Java and Android library. This suggests the user was involved in implementing and testing the core functionalities of the library.
ethereumrxjavasmart-contract-toolsblockchainandroid-library
web3j/homebrew-web3j
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
web3j homebrew tap
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
ethereumblockchainweb3web3jhomebrew
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