Mårten Blankfors
Tech Lead, Chain Signatures
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolMårten Blankfors is a tech lead and blockchain engineer with 9 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across crypto, fintech, and ML domains. Currently leading Chain Signatures at Near One, he previously guided sBTC engineering at Trust Machines and contributed backend and DevOps improvements to the notable Stacks blockchain implementation. He combines a strong academic foundation—a Master's in Machine Learning from KTH—with hands-on expertise in backend, testing, and deployment, and a track record of refactoring and hardening complex codebases. Known as a fast learner and collaborative leader, he has moved between IC and management roles, shipping core infrastructure at startups and established teams like Klarna and Fuel Labs. Beyond engineering, he has practical experience in synthetic data, GAN-driven domain adaptation, and even entrepreneurship and teaching, which informs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to problem solving. Colleagues describe him as technically versatile and reliably pleasant to work with, with a knack for improving maintainability in low-level blockchain tooling.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyOptics/Spectroscopy, Optics/Spectroscopy at Zhejiang University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (7)
rust10
testing10
cicd9
blockchain9
cryptocurrency8
bitcoins7
bitcoin7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/stacks-core
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The Stacks blockchain implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:258 reviews, 71 commits, 28 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mårten primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring efforts within the Stacks blockchain implementation. Their work included correcting test names, upgrading and locking versions of the Clarinet Deno library, and replacing invalid characters in smart contract name construction. Additionally, the user introduced and utilized `stdext` for improved testing with hard-coded function names. These contributions suggest a focus on improving the codebase's reliability and maintainability.
appsblockstackdnsrustserverless
Trust-Machines/stacks-sbtc
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
https://sbtc.tech
Contributions:315 reviews, 24 commits, 70 PRs in 21 days
bitcoinstacks
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