Edward Bramanti is a founder and CTO with 12 years of hands-on experience building performant, developer-centric products across web and blockchain domains. Based in Denver, he has driven major performance wins—rebuilding Dune’s data table explorer for a 20x improvement—and led architecture efforts that reduced load and latency across multiple teams. He blends full-stack expertise (Node, TypeScript, React, Go, Rails) with operational experience shipping on-prem and cloud-native systems, and has led teams and mentored engineers through substantial platform migrations. Edward also co-founded Solana and NEAR projects, earning recognition and grants for mobile-first DeFi and portfolio management products, and currently explores AI agents and smart contracts at Herd Labs. An active OSS contributor, he’s fixed docs and tests in core libraries like Bookshelf, demonstrating care for correctness and developer experience beyond product code. Practical, product-focused, and curious, he thrives at the intersection of developer productivity, collaboration, and high-performance systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University
A simple Node.js ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 built on top of Knex.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 54 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily focused on refining the documentation and improving the accuracy of the Bookshelf ORM. Their contributions involved updating documentation to reflect the correct behavior of `Model#fetch` and `Collection#fetchOne`, addressing inconsistencies between documentation and code. They also implemented tests to ensure the correct behavior of these methods, ensuring null is returned when no record is found. Further work included fixing documentation errors and adding a missing `fetch()` call within the `Model#where` method.
Contributions:7 releases, 29 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year
eslint-configeslint-plugineslint
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