Daniel Gretzke
Staff Smart Contract Engineer - Protocol at Uniswap Labs
Germany
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Top SchoolDaniel Gretzke is a staff smart contract engineer at Uniswap Labs with nine years of deep experience building and securing Ethereum-native protocols. He has led smart contract teams at Polygon Labs and Spectral and advised the European Commission on Horizon 2020 blockchain research, blending product-facing engineering with policy-level insight. A long-time blockchain enthusiast since 2014, he pairs protocol design and security expertise with hands-on delivery across DeFi primitives and layer-2 infrastructures. As a founder and consultant earlier in his career he navigated both startup execution and enterprise adoption, giving him a pragmatic perspective on risk and scalability. Based in Germany and grounded in electrical engineering and information technology, he brings both formal technical training and a track record of influencing standards and deployments in the Ethereum ecosystem. An uncommon strength is his cross-cutting view of research, security audit practices, and production-grade protocol engineering that helps bridge academic initiatives and live markets.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Github Skills (194)
erc115510
uniswap10
peripheral10
nft10
ethereum10
solidity9
pos9
erc7219
payment9
mechanism9
python9
windows9
smart-contracts9
machine-learning9
blockchain9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gretzke/easy-dapp
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Frontend builder for smart contracts
Contributions:64 commits, 6 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 months
reactethereumblockchainbuilderfrontend
0xPolygon/pol-token
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
Set of contracts proposed in PIP-17, notably Polygon Ecosystem Token meant as an upgrade to Matic Token.
Contributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 39 PRs in 6 months
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