Lucas Bertrand
Staff Engineer at Stealth FinTech Startup
Malta
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Top SchoolLucas Bertrand is a Staff Engineer and product-minded blockchain specialist with 11 years of experience building protocols, smart contracts, and developer tooling across DeFi and Cosmos ecosystems. He has led engineering teams at ZetaChain and All in Bits (founders of Cosmos), directing protocol and smart-contract work in Go and Solidity while shipping core features for interoperable PoS blockchains. A hands-on contributor to Ignite CLI—an influential tool for building Cosmos-SDK chains—he focuses on backend systems, code generation, and IBC integration to make complex blockchains more composable. Based in Malta, he balances deep technical leadership with product intuition, moving between low-level protocol design and developer-facing tooling. Known for "cooking in DeFi," he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering rigor and startup agility to early-stage fintech and crypto projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble
French, English
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Github Skills (16)
cosmos-sdk10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
go10
cpp-templates10
html-template10
python-templates10
blockchain10
cli10
memory-management6
quadtree6
history6
nextjs6
javascript6
scroll6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ignite/cli
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Ignite is a CLI tool and hub designed for constructing Proof of Stake Blockchains rooted in Cosmos-SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 927 reviews, 207 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the Ignite CLI tool for building Cosmos-SDK based blockchains, with a focus on back-end development tasks. Their work involved refactoring templates, implementing module creation commands, enhancing message handling, and adding features to handle genesis state and inter-blockchain communication (IBC) packets. The user demonstrated proficiency in modifying code generation templates and improving the project's overall functionality.
cliignite-cliblockchain-platformethereumcosmos-sdk
zeta-chain/protocol-contracts
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Protocol contracts implementing the core logic of the protocol, deployed on ZetaChain and on connected chains
Contributions:241 reviews, 115 PRs, 187 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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