Martin Magnus
Rust Engineer at CoW Protocol
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Magnus is a Rust engineer with eight years of experience who thrives on performance-sensitive native code and systems-level thinking. With a background in C++, full-stack web development, and a Bachelor in Technical Computer Engineering from HAW Hamburg, he moved from frontend and Node.js work into backend and Rust-driven infrastructure—successfully convincing employers to evaluate and port services to Rust. At CoW Protocol he contributes to product design and core implementation, bringing practical experience from desktop Qt tooling and embedded/OS coursework to decentralized finance tooling. He enjoys digging into async I/O and event-driven architectures, and is known for turning prototypical experiments (like a Rust port) into production-ready components. Based in Jena, Germany, he blends low-level systems curiosity with real-world product delivery across web, native, and blockchain-adjacent projects.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Technische Informatik, Bachelor Technische Informatik at HAW Hamburg
Github Skills (42)
crypto10
cryptocurrency10
ethereum10
blockchain10
ethereum-contract10
contract9
cryptography9
ido9
geo8
visual-editor8
vector-tiles7
cartography7
gis7
documentation7
react6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cowprotocol/cow-fi
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 releases, 19 reviews, 41 commits in 9 months
cowprotocol/grants
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
COW Grants Program (grants.cow.fi)
Contributions:3 releases, 55 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
cowgrants
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