Fabio Lama
Senior Software Engineer at Botanix Labs
Switzerland
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Top SchoolFabio Lama is a Senior Software Engineer based in Switzerland with seven years of experience building protocol-focused, security-conscious systems in Rust and low-level languages. He specialises in distributed systems, cryptography, and Bitcoin protocol work—contributing Bitcoin Taproot, Ordinals and BRC20 support and UTXO/fee optimisations to Trust Wallet’s widely used wallet-core library. His background spans protocol specification authorship for Polkadot, SRE and DevOps at Web3 Foundation, and integrating Lightning payments across mobile platforms, demonstrating fluency from research-grade specs to production deployments. Equally at home writing LaTeX protocol docs or implementing C header parsers and Swift bindings in Rust, he brings a pragmatic blend of research, tooling and applied security engineering.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of LondonFederal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (EFZ) Specialism Application Development, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (EFZ) Specialism Application Development at Bildungszentrum Zürichsee BZZ Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (EFZ) Specialism System and Network Technology, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (EFZ) Specialism System and Network Technology at Bildungszentrum Uster – Berufsfachschule Uster
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Github Skills (13)
bitcoin10
code-generation10
rust10
bitcoins10
cryptography10
blockchain10
cryptocurrency9
swift9
cross-platform8
unit-testing8
generics6
operator-overloading6
java6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
trustwallet/wallet-core
Dec 2022 - Apr 2024
Cross-platform, cross-blockchain wallet library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2 releases, 197 reviews, 27 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Fabio's primary contributions revolve around developing and maintaining Bitcoin-related functionality within the wallet-core library. Their work includes implementing a generic C header parser in Rust for code generation, generating Swift bindings for the code, and adding support for Bitcoin Taproot and BRC20. Furthermore, they have been involved in calculating transaction fees and optimizing UTXO selection. The user's contributions indicate a strong understanding of Bitcoin protocol and related security implications.
wallet-libraryblockchain-walletethereumblockchainwallet
w3f/PSPs
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:11 reviews, 396 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 11 months
substrateproposalsblockchainstandardspolkadot
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