Francois De La Rouviere
Full Stack Developer (.NET, React, Angular, Blockchain) at STRATIS GROUP LTD
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancois De La Rouviere is a seasoned Full Stack Developer with deep expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem and over 20 years of C#/.NET experience applied across insurance, POS and blockchain domains. He blends backend systems knowledge (SQL Server, MongoDB, .NET Core) with modern frontend skills in React and Node.js, and has recently focused on shipping production React apps and Android builds for POS systems. As a core contributor to the Stratis Bitcoin full node project, he refactored critical block store logic, added unit tests and improved resiliency—demonstrating strong systems-thinking in blockchain infrastructure. He has led teams building full nodes, smart contract platforms and wallet UIs, and mentors engineers while overseeing merges to master branches. Based in Cardiff, he brings a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach framed by long-term maintenance experience on large bespoke systems like Abacus for insurance. An avid open-source practitioner, he pairs low-level protocol work with polished front-end delivery—an uncommon full-stack combination in blockchain engineering.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HND Information Technology, Stats/Pragramming/IS/Database systems, HND Information Technology, Stats/Pragramming/IS/Database systems at Cape Technicon
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Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
csharp10
software-design10
blockchain10
dotnet-core10
teamcity6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
Bitcoin full node in C#
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 19 reviews, 446 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Francois's commits focused on refactoring the block store loop within the Stratis Bitcoin full node project. They split the `BlockStoreLoop` into logical components, added unit tests, and added the ability to re-enqueue downloads on failure. The user also made changes to the data structure of blocks.
full-nodeblockchaincsharpcryptocurrencybitcoin
stratisproject/StratisFullNode
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:604 reviews, 1492 commits, 888 PRs in 2 years 8 months
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