David Echelberger is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack and blockchain systems, currently advancing platform features at Slack while running his own software consultancy. He has delivered enterprise-grade solutions at Kaleido—helping central banks and Swift with CBDC projects—and contributed backend work to Hyperledger FireFly, implementing token management, mint/burn, and transfer flows for a widely used Web3 supernode. His background includes optimizing cloud-native microservices at Cisco, IoT product work at Honeywell, and GDPR compliance tooling at SAS, reflecting strong domain breadth from regulated enterprise systems to decentralized identity (PolygonID, ZK proofs). Comfortable across Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL and more, David blends hands-on engineering with product sensibility and a business minor grounding. He’s active in entrepreneurship and university programs and brings a practical habit of thinking logically and differently to simplify complex technical and regulatory problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Minor in Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Minor in Business Administration at North Carolina State University
Hyperledger FireFly is the first open source Supernode: a complete stack for enterprises to build and scale secure Web3 applications. The FireFly API for digital assets, data flows, and blockchain transactions makes it radically faster to build production-ready apps on popular chains and protocols.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:18 reviews, 108 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the backend of the Hyperledger FireFly project, specifically focusing on the development of new GET routes for token management within the system. The code changes involved modifications to mock asset managers and internal asset management logic. The user also worked on implementing and refining methods related to token transfers, burn, and minting operations.
Contributions:19 reviews, 31 commits, 21 PRs in 4 months
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