David Brouwer is a CTO and builder with nine years of experience scaling consumer and Web3 products, having led teams that produced technology used by over 500,000 people and supported fundraising north of $20M. He combines hands-on systems work—contributing to notable open-source projects like the Go microservices framework go-micro—with deep expertise in Rust, Move, and applied AI for blockchain and smart contract security. At MangoNet Labs he focuses on making Move-based Web3 infrastructure more developer-friendly and performant with an ambition to enable mass adoption, while prior roles include founding and growing ChatGod to 200k users by integrating multi-engine AI chatbots into messaging apps. Comfortable shipping end-to-end products, he has experience building prototypes, hiring and scaling engineering teams, and refactoring critical backend systems to improve reliability. Based in Chad with a BSc from the University of Twente, he brings a global perspective and a research-informed view of projects like Libra/Diem that informs his work at the intersection of blockchain and AI.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc ATLAS, BSc ATLAS at University of Twente
VWO Natuur & Techniek Natuur & Gezondheid, VWO Natuur & Techniek Natuur & Gezondheid at SG Het Rhedens
Contributions:3 releases, 16 reviews, 7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `go-micro` framework by fixing bugs and improving existing features. Their work included addressing issues with event subscribers and pointers, as well as adding linting and test output capabilities within the CI pipeline. They also refactored the RPC server and added a test framework, enhancing the project's robustness and maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed a minor error scope in the service profile setup.
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David Brouwer - Chief Technology Officer at MangoNet Labs