Marius Van Der Wijden
Software Developer at Ethereum
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolMarius Van Der Wijden is a software developer with a decade of experience focused on high-performance blockchain infrastructure, currently contributing to go-ethereum at Ethereum in Frankfurt. He has deep back-end expertise across major open-source Ethereum clients—go-ethereum, Erigon, Lighthouse and BSC—working on EVM optimizations, RLP stream pooling, transaction pool behavior, and EIP-1559/London fork support. His work spans low-level storage and trie improvements, consensus Engine API features (including EIP-4844 blobs), and CUDA optimizations for mining, showing a rare combination of protocol, performance and systems-level skills. Marius co-founded a blockchain startup and has consulted on blockchain projects, pairing academic rigor from TU Darmstadt with practical contributions to some of the ecosystem’s most widely used clients. An attention to subtle correctness issues (fixing data races, eth_call revert reasons and packing/unpacking bugs) highlights his focus on robust, production-grade protocol engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
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testing10
evm10
gpu-programming10
rs10
decode10
data-structure10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-mining/ethminer
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:119 commits, 67 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Marius primarily focused on modifying the codebase to support CUDA-related functionalities for Ethereum mining. The contributions include adding support for `__shfl_sync` and adapting existing code to utilize this function, which is crucial for CUDA 9.0 compatibility and warp-level operations. The user also refactored the CUDA miner and corrected code errors to improve functionality and address the use of deprecated CUDA functions.
cudagpuethereumethereum-minerstratum
ethereum/go-ethereum
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1137 reviews, 201 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Marius primarily contributed to the go-ethereum repository by implementing RLP stream pooling and adding and refactoring various methods related to account management and binding for Ethereum smart contracts. These changes involved code modifications, including optimizations, and code cleanup. The user's work also extended to improvements within the core functionalities of Ethereum by implementing changes to the transaction process and fixing several data race conditions.
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