peerchemist
Freelance Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarFreelance Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in back-end and full-stack development, based in Switzerland. Proven open-source contributor to cryptocurrency projects like ElectrumX and Peercoin, where contributions improved altcoin support, test coverage, and segwit/testnet functionality. Also experienced in Python data tooling, having added indicators, tests, and documentation to the financial Pandas library finta. Comfortable across build systems, dependency management, and UI/UX tweaks, showing a pragmatic balance of low-level protocol work and user-facing polish. Known for shipping maintainable, test-backed changes that bridge research-grade crypto code and production deployments.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
ec10
c-language10
python10
peer-to-peer10
testing10
pandas10
bitcoin10
el10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrency10
blockchain10
cprogramming-language10
server10
trading-algorithms9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
peerchemist/finta
Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
Common financial technical indicators implemented in Pandas.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 2 reviews, 336 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:peerchemist primarily contributed to the implementation of financial technical indicators within a Python library using the Pandas library. Their work involved adding new indicators, refactoring existing ones, and ensuring the accuracy of calculations. They also made improvements by adding unit tests and documentation and configuring the project for deployment.
financialtrading-strategystock-marketalgorithmic-tradingpython
peercoin/peercoin
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Reference implementation of the Peercoin protocol.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 43 reviews, 306 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:peerchemist primarily focused on rebranding efforts, changing version strings and client names throughout the codebase. They also addressed several UI/UX-related items, including theme adjustments and menu changes. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and fixed boost-related issues. They have also made changes to the build configuration.
proof-of-stakeblockchaindecentralizedminablecryptocurrency
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