Ferdinando Ametrano
Cofounder And Chief Executive Officer at Digital Gold Institute
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFerdinando Ametrano is a physicist-turned-fintech entrepreneur with 25 years of experience bridging quantitative finance, open-source software, and bitcoin research. He cofounded CheckSig to deliver auditable, institutional-grade bitcoin custody and leads the Digital Gold Institute and Crypto Asset Lab to advance R&D, consultancy, and teaching on monetary theory and blockchain. A former Head of Blockchain at Intesa Sanpaolo and cofounder/co-administrator of QuantLib, he combines deep derivatives and risk-management expertise with hands-on open-source contributions (including btclib and improvements to bitcoin-core's HWI and QuantLib-SWIG). As an adjunct professor across several Italian and international universities, he researches automated elastic monetary policy for cryptocurrencies while advising institutions including the UN and central banks. Known for shipping pragmatic, auditable systems—SOC-attested and insured custody with on-chain proof-of-reserves—he’s equally comfortable writing production code or lecturing on Hayekian monetary ideas. Colleagues call him eccentric; students call him compelling.
25 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanLiceo Classico Morelli, Vibo Valentia
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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39reached
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
python10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
ruby10
hardware-wallet10
blockchain10
quantitative-finance10
cprogramming-language10
swig10
bitcoin-core9
cryptography9
build-automation9
cross-platform8
git8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lballabio/QuantLib-SWIG
Apr 2002 - Dec 2012
QuantLib wrappers to other languages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ferdinando primarily contributed to the QuantLib-SWIG project by implementing support for zip distribution on the Win32 platform and updating the version numbers in multiple files including Python, Ruby, and SWIG. They made significant changes to the build process, adapting the setup scripts to create zip archives. Furthermore, they focused on improving existing distribution functions and exporting additional generators.
pythonquantliblanguagesquantitative-financewrappers
bitcoin-core/HWI
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Interface
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 17 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ferdinando primarily contributed to the `hwilib` library, which provides an interface for interacting with Bitcoin hardware wallets. Their work involved extending the `sign_message` function to accept byte strings in addition to strings, and adapting several device-specific implementations (Coldcard, Ledger, Trezor, DigitalBitbox) to support this change. The user also addressed unused variables and cleaned up log messages, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability within the project.
hardware-walletwalletbitcoin-hardware-walletcryptocurrencyhardware
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