F Aumson
Founding Engineer at Guardrail
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolF Aumson is a meticulous founding engineer with over a decade of full‑stack and systems experience spanning native applications, distributed back ends, and blockchain infrastructure. He has driven production features and prototypes for high‑value systems—supporting a $500M TVL Avalanche bridge at Ava Labs and contributing key state-manipulation capabilities to Hardhat used widely in Ethereum development. A pragmatic generalist and certified Scrum Master, he blends deep low‑level C/C++ and Go experience with TypeScript, Python and Solidity to ship reliable, testable systems. His open-source contributions include tangible improvements to ethereum/web3.py and Hardhat that enable better contract interaction and local testing, reflecting a focus on developer ergonomics. Known for clear communication, a teacher’s mindset, and an optimistic tenacity, he aims to advance financial engineering at the intersection of smart contracts and traditional markets. An attention to craftsmanship traces back to seasonal restoration work—an unexpected influence on his code quality and process discipline.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Self-taughtComputer Science, Computer Science at George Mason UniversityVarious certifications for knowledge of financial markets, Various certifications for knowledge of financial markets at Bloomberg LP
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
solidity10
python10
apidoc10
web3py10
testing10
typescript10
abi10
api10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
erc2010
smart-contracts10
typescripts10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
NomicFoundation/hardhat-boilerplate
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 35 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:F focused on developing and refining the smart contract logic for a token within the Hardhat boilerplate repository. They implemented features such as token transfers, event emission, and ensured proper balance updates. The contributions included improving test cases to validate these functionalities, along with refactoring the code to align with ERC-20 standards. Furthermore, the user improved the code comments for better clarity.
NomicFoundation/hardhat
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 702 reviews, 838 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:F made significant contributions to the Hardhat project, primarily focused on implementing new functionalities related to account modifications and the interaction with the Ethereum state. Their work included adding features for setting account balances, setting contract code, setting nonces, and setting storage slots. These changes involved modifications to the Hardhat Network provider and associated test suites.
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