Elmar Kenigs
Lead Software Engineer at OpsLayer
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolElmar Kenigs is a Lead Software Engineer based in Zurich with nearly a decade of experience building and scaling full‑stack Node.js/TypeScript systems, specializing in decentralized web applications (dApps). He has led teams through multiple mainnet launches—most recently owning architecture and hands‑on delivery for Tanssi, DataHaven, and Moonbeam—spanning frontend, backend, AWS infrastructure, and testing. Comfortable shifting between strategic technical decision‑making and code-level implementation, he standardized front-end stacks (Next.js, Mantine) and introduced robust E2E testing practices (Playwright) across projects. Elmar also has extensive experience designing cross‑chain integrations (XCM‑SDK, WAGMI/PolkadotJS) and operationalizing multi‑chain wallet/state management. He combines strong hiring and mentorship experience with a habit of driving migrations and developer ergonomics that measurably improved performance and deployment workflows. Beyond Web3, his background in logistics and high‑traffic consumer platforms shows a track record of delivering reliable production systems under real‑world scale.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
Github Skills (66)
contract10
metadata10
polkadot10
chain10
signing10
sdk10
substrate10
voting10
frontier10
wagmi10
vue10
evm10
ethereum10
blockchain10
react10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ekenigs/ekenigs.github.io
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 9 months
moonbeam-foundation/xcm-sdk
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
The Moonbeam XCM SDK enables developers to easily transfer assets between chains, either between parachains or between a parachain and the relay chain, within the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem. With the SDK, you don't need to worry about determining the multilocation of the origin or destination assets or which extrinsics are used on which networks to
Contributions:7 releases, 222 reviews, 39 commits in 7 months
moonbeamxcm-sdkchainpolkadotrelay-chain
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