Dave Appleton
Smart Contract Lead at Galaxis (formerly Ether Cards)
Johor, Malaysia
Summary
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SeniorDave Appleton is a veteran engineer and smart contract lead with over four decades of experience designing complex software and hardware systems, now focused on blockchain protocols and Ethereum-based tooling. He leads smart contract development at Galaxis and consults for blockchain projects like Vesto, leveraging a deep background that ranges from semiconductor test systems and automated visual inspection to civil engineering instrumentation and fintech integrations. An early programmer since 1968, Dave combines low-level systems thinking (assembler, machine code) with modern languages like Go, Scala, Haskell and Solidity, and has built practical blockchain tools including an Ethereum gas tracker bot and an early Spacemesh explorer. He advises startups on integrating smart contracts into business systems and regularly speaks on secure smart contract development, bringing both cross-domain engineering rigor and decades of production-tested design patterns to distributed ledger projects.
12 years of coding experience
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (106)
contract10
security10
smart-contracts10
cpp10
p2p10
solidity10
editor10
firefox10
golang10
electron10
elixir10
browser-extension10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DaveAppleton/SolidityFlattery
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
A solidity file flattener
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
DaveAppleton/Gophercon_in
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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