Daniel Burckhardt
Gründer In at HYPER REAL LOVE
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Burckhardt is a founder and product leader with eight years of hands-on experience building and shipping backend systems for blockchain and startup products from Berlin. As a former CPO and current Gründer, he combines strategic product leadership with deep core-protocol engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like Ethermint and Evmos where he implemented EIP-1559 tests, fee-market unit tests, and revenue "clawback" features. Comfortable moving between Go backend development and product strategy, he has a track record of fixing vulnerabilities, upgrading chain state, and restructuring complex RPC codebases. His background spans industrial engineering and full-stack training, giving him a systems-oriented approach to product and engineering problems. Outside tech he’s an active recording and touring artist, hinting at a creative streak that informs his leadership and product sensibility. Based in Berlin, he thrives at the intersection of protocol development, product strategy, and entrepreneurial execution.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Developer Computer-Softwaretechnik, Full-Stack Web Developer Computer-Softwaretechnik at Le WagonIndustrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at CentraleSupélecBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
json-rpc10
evm10
cosmos-sdk10
smart-contracts10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
evmos/evmos
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Evmos is the canonical EVM chain on Cosmos. Evmos is the flagship implementation of evmOS, a stack to build forward compatible EVMs
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 413 reviews, 213 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the Evmos repository by modifying Go code related to the intrarelayer, ERC20, and feesplit modules. Their contributions involved renaming parameters, fixing vulnerabilities, bumping dependencies, adding validation for coin denominations, updating documentation, and implementing features related to governance and state management. They also implemented and tested a "clawback" functionality related to the revenue module and performed upgrades on the Evmos chain, demonstrating an understanding of the project's core architecture and codebase.
golangethermintethereumcosmos-sdkblockchain
evmos/ethermint
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Ethermint is a Cosmos SDK library for running scalable and interoperable EVM chains
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 79 reviews, 47 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel restructured the JSON-RPC directory and refactored several components within the `ethermint/ethermint` repository, including the personal, debug, miner, and eth namespaces. They updated the RPC tests and implemented unit tests for fee market, adding EIP1559 tests and other functional tests. The contributions involved modifying code across multiple files, focusing on the backend and core functionalities of the EVM-compatible blockchain framework.
golanginteroperablescalableethermintethereum
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