James Wenzel
Smart Contract & Blockchain Engineer at Bridge
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Wenzel is a Smart Contract & Blockchain Engineer with 11 years of software experience, currently building on-chain infrastructure for Bridge and Stripe’s stablecoin and smart-contract products. He co-authored Seaport and SeaDrop at OpenSea, contributing core Solidity logic and rigorous tests to one of the most widely used NFT settlement protocols. James blends backend systems and test automation expertise—having extended Foundry to support Huff artifacts, improved tooling, and added debugging views—to make Ethereum development more robust and interoperable. A former founder of a Farcaster client, he pairs product curiosity with production-grade engineering across consumer crypto and decentralized social. Based in Los Angeles, he also composes music, reflecting a creative lens he brings to protocol design and developer tooling. Practical, security-minded, and product-focused, he specializes in building infrastructure that secures and moves large-scale value onchain.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Cognitive Science with a concentration in Computational Modeling, Bachelor’s Degree Cognitive Science with a concentration in Computational Modeling at University of California, BerkeleyCañada CollegeCertificate of Proficiency in Music Business Music Business, Certificate of Proficiency in Music Business Music Business at Foothill CollegeTulane UniversityMenlo-Atherton High School
Github Skills (17)
foundry10
application-framework10
solidity10
testing10
evm10
app-framework10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
web-framework10
rust10
debug9
unit-testing9
tooling9
debugging9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectOpenSea/seaport
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Seaport is a marketplace protocol for safely and efficiently buying and selling NFTs.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 348 commits, 58 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:James's commits primarily involve setting up and configuring a Solidity-based smart contract project. The user focuses on Solidity code, specifically related to the OpenSea Seaport marketplace protocol. They worked on foundry tests and added multiple contract tests for the offerer functionality. The work demonstrates a strong focus on core contract logic and testing.
marketplaceseaportdappethereumblockchain
foundry-rs/foundry
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 1 commit, 14 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:James's contributions center around enhancing the Foundry project's capabilities, particularly in the realm of Ethereum application development. They added support for getting bytecode from Huff artifacts, which demonstrates extending the framework's compatibility. They also focused on improving the forge init template, incorporating submodule handling and improving dependency management through the installation and update processes. Furthermore, they added functionality for debugging by adding calldata and returndata views. Their work also included enhancing the test suite, adding comprehensive tests for these added functionalities.
foundryethereumsolcsethevm
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