Daniel Edgecombe
Senior Python Engineer at Arrive
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Edgecombe is a lead backend engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems for fintech, smart cities and SaaS platforms from London. He specialises in Python, FIX protocol and low-latency trading infrastructure—having led FX trading systems that deliver live data and automated strategy execution for hedge funds while contributing backend and test automation improvements to Bitcoin Core. Daniel has repeatedly taken teams from prototype to production—designing datamesh and AI-enabled platforms, multi-tenant APIs, and infrastructure-as-code across AWS and Azure—and is comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and leadership. His background spans startups and enterprise projects, where he’s known for pragmatic system design, rigorous testing, and mentoring engineers. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of adding concise, well-tested RPC features to critical open-source projects, showing both product sensibility and attention to detail.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
VCE, VCE at Kingswood CollegeDigital Systems, Digital Systems at Monash University
Swedish
Github Skills (15)
cryptocurrency10
json-rpc10
drpc10
bitcoin10
ropc10
c-language10
procedures10
rpc10
bitcoins10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
testing10
test-automation9
cryptography8
python8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 71 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the Bitcoin Core project by adding functionality and improving existing features. This includes implementing an `unconfirmedbalance` field in the `getwalletinfo` RPC call. They also made enhancements to the `getblockchaininfo` RPC, adding new fields and related tests. The user has also demonstrated testing skills by adding RPC tests for weight in mempool entry, which were directly integrated into the existing test framework.
bitcoin-corebitcoinc-plus-plusp2pcryptocurrency
esotericnonsense/bitcoind-ncurses
Jun 2014 - Sep 2017
DEPRECATED - see bitcoind-ncurses2
Contributions:300 commits, 5 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 3 months
bitcoinddeprecate
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