Guilhem Fanton is a Golang developer with 11 years of experience building resilient, mobile-first and peer-to-peer systems from Greater Paris. He spent five years at Berty Technologies implementing secure P2P messaging primitives, a gomobile IPFS node, and mobile-optimized libp2p/IPFS integrations used by a widely known open-source secure messaging project. At Gno.land he continues to apply backend and protocol expertise, while earlier roles include high-performance gRPC modules for React Native and core contributions to PrestaShop 1.7. Guilhem’s work emphasizes API and data-structure design—evidenced by his implementation of global IDs and GraphQL node resolvers in the Berty relay. Comfortable across mobile, backend, and distributed systems, he blends practical optimizations for constrained environments with protocol-level thinking. He trained at 42, reflecting a hacker mindset and hands-on problem-solving approach to complex engineering challenges.
Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:86 reviews, 854 commits, 253 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Guilhem implemented a global ID feature within the relay component, adding support for a base64-encoded representation of an entity's kind and ID. The changes involved modifications to core API components, particularly converting contact, conversation member, and event data to utilize the new global ID format. Further commits implemented a node query method, enabling the retrieval of events, contacts, conversations, and members by their global IDs through the GraphQL resolver. These modifications suggest a focus on data structure and API design within the Berty project.
Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
Contributions:150 commits, 4 PRs, 939 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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