Juan Blanco
Director at Comix
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJuan Blanco is a director and seasoned software architect with over 20 years in IT and 14 years focused on blockchain, developer tooling, and enterprise architecture. He founded Nethereum to bridge .NET with Ethereum and created the widely used VS Code Solidity extension (200k+ downloads), demonstrating a knack for pragmatic open-source products that enable developer adoption. His background spans major firms including Microsoft, ConsenSys, CSC and Sage, where he led large financial and enterprise integrations, complex calculation engines, and platform unification efforts. Juan combines hands-on engineering—compiling Solidity, generating ABI/bytecode tooling, and maintaining IDE integrations—with strategic architecture and governance. Based in Newcastle, he runs ObjectSpaces Ltd to advance cross-platform Ethereum tooling while advising and contributing to multiple blockchain projects. An early Bitcoin user since 2010 who spotted Ethereum’s potential in 2013, he brings both long-term crypto conviction and enterprise delivery experience.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Honours Computing For Business, IT, Bsc Honours Computing For Business, IT at Northumbria UniversityEscuelas Pias de San Fernando
Spanish, English
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ethereum
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Github Skills (17)
visual-studio-code-extension10
solidity10
contract10
ethereum10
compile10
compiler10
smart-contracts10
json9
abi9
code-generation8
netcore6
erc206
unity-game-engine6
nethereum6
vbnet6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
juanfranblanco/vscode-solidity
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Visual Studio Code language support extension for Solidity smart contracts in Ethereum https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JuanBlanco.solidity
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:366 commits, 92 PRs, 396 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily contributed to the development of a Solidity language support extension for Visual Studio Code. They focused on compiling Solidity smart contracts, including fixes related to compilation warnings and ensuring compatibility with multiple contracts. Their work involved integrating the Solidity compiler and outputting compilation results, including bytecode, ABI, and other metadata, into JSON files. They also implemented features for code generation based on compiled output, and for supporting the display of compiler-generated diagnostics.
marketplacevisual-studio-codeethereumblockchainextension-support
Nethereum/Covid19-Immunity-Cert-Attestation
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Covid19 Immunity Certification and attestation PoC
Contributions:46 commits, 3 PRs, 41 pushes in 28 days
immunitysecurityattestationpoccertification
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