Fabian Schuh
Founder And CEO at Blockchain Development GmbH
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFabian Schuh is an entrepreneur and engineer with 16 years of experience building and advising blockchain systems, combining a Dr.-Ing. in communications from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg with hands-on core development on the notable BitShares project. He has founded multiple blockchain firms (ChainSquad, Blockchain Development GmbH) and led technical strategy and execution across Graphene-based backends, Python/NodeJS middleware, and React/Flask frontends. Deeply involved in early crypto since 2011, he contributed to BitShares core node optimizations, CLI wallet enhancements and the python-bitshares client—work that sits at the intersection of DevOps, performance tuning, and protocol engineering. As a founder-CTO he translates research-grade communications expertise into production-ready, trustless financial services and DAC-focused architectures. Outside work he balances engineering with music and family life, bringing a pragmatic, systems-oriented view shaped by both academic rigor and real-world governance experience.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Communications, Dr.-Ing., Communications at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Github Skills (33)
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python10
apidoc10
collectd10
c1110
openvpn10
c1710
api10
meter10
blockchain10
bit10
cprogramming-language10
dockers9
docker9
devops9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
bitshares/python-bitshares
Dec 2016 - May 2022
Fully featured client-side library for the BitShares Blockchain - written entirely in python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 766 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily focused on the foundational elements and internal workings of the BitShares Python library. Their contributions involved establishing the initial directory structure, core file initialization, test enhancements to ensure functionality, and the temporary adaptation of existing code. These code changes focused on the management of the blockchain, and various modules.
python-librarypythonclient-sideblockchaincryptocurrency
bitshares/bitshares-core
Jan 2016 - Aug 2019
BitShares Blockchain node and command-line wallet
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:81 commits, 57 PRs, 114 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily contributed to the core functionality of the BitShares blockchain node. They focused on optimizing the blockchain node, including adjusting the default block size, configuring memory usage and setting up Docker configurations. Additionally, the user implemented enhancements to the wallet, such as adding the update_asset_issuer call and associated CLI functionalities. The user demonstrated skills in both back-end development, and DevOps practices.
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