Manuel Mauro is a Senior Blockchain Engineer based in Leuven with 11 years of experience blending research-grade rigor and production engineering across cryptography, distributed systems, and blockchain infrastructure. He has held roles from postdoctoral researcher and PhD candidate to senior engineer at Algorand and currently leads engineering efforts at Moonsong Labs while founding Nuts And Bolts. Manuel is an active open-source contributor, notably improving Rust’s popular petgraph library and contributing backend and devops fixes to zkSync Era, demonstrating fluency in low-level algorithms, testing, and zk-rollup tooling. His background marrying a PhD in computer science with hands-on protocol work gives him a rare ability to translate formal ideas into robust, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Sapienza Università di Roma
Contributions:148 reviews, 25 PRs, 569 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Manuel contributed to the zkSync Era project by fixing bugs related to the `zk_inception` toolbox and adding new features, such as adding revert tests for external nodes. The user's commits also involved modifying the core components of the project and adding options for file-based configuration. Furthermore, the user demonstrated expertise in setting up tests and integrating new features within the zkSync Era environment, which also included writing tests for the zk_supervisor.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the `petgraph` library by implementing and refining graph traversal functionalities. They added a new iterator, `edges_connecting`, to retrieve edges between two nodes, including handling both directed and undirected graph types. The user also addressed documentation issues and improved existing tests, demonstrating a focus on code quality and usability. Furthermore, they refactored and renamed existing iterators to improve clarity and maintainability of the codebase.
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Manuel Mauro - Senior Blockchain Engineer at Nuts And Bolts