Iuri Matias
Senior Software Engineer at Institute of Free Technology
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIuri Matias is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in decentralized systems, smart contracts, cryptography and cryptoeconomics. Creator and lead developer of the Embark framework, he combines deep Solidity and web3.js expertise with full‑stack JavaScript and backend systems experience. He has held technical leadership roles at Status and contributed to core Ethereum tooling such as Remix, implementing compiler, deployer and test-runner improvements. Comfortable across languages from C/C++ to Python and Ruby, he also has hands-on experience deploying infrastructure on AWS, Rackspace and Heroku. Based in Ottawa, he pairs practical product delivery—shipping a social network that reached 100k users and enterprise systems at Autodesk—with active open-source contributions to widely used developer tooling. He prefers working close to the stack (Vim user) and brings a rare blend of cryptography-first thinking and pragmatic engineering.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Systems Enginering, Computer and Information Systems Enginering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
solidity10
dsl10
testing10
rspec10
go10
remix10
ethereum10
state-machine10
blockchain10
software-design9
ruby9
nodejs9
web3js9
hardhat8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/remix
Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
This has been moved to https://github.com/ethereum/remix-project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 512 commits, 80 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Iuri's contributions primarily focused on the development of the Remix project, indicated by the move from ethereum/remix to ethereum/remix-project. The user implemented browser tests for macOS, and included file changes with the build process. Also, the user worked on the deployer, compiler and test runner code using JavaScript and Solidity. This includes the use of the Hardhat test frameworks.
ethereumdapps-developmentsoliditysolcsmart-contracts
gocardless/statesman
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
A statesmanlike state machine library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Iuri focused on enhancing the `statesman` library with core features. They implemented an event DSL, including event triggering and error handling. Significant changes include adding a method to return available events, moving event transitions to their own file, and writing initial specs for the new event features. The user also added detailed error messages.
state-managementstate-machine
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