Matthias Benkort
Technical Director Of Open-Source Development at Cardano Foundation
Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMatthias Benkort is a Technical Director and pragmatic functional programmer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining critical open-source infrastructure for the Cardano ecosystem from Switzerland. He blends back-end systems expertise in Haskell and Go with full-stack work on developer portals and CIP tooling, having shipped features across cardano-wallet, the Cardano Developer Portal, and the CIPs site. At the Cardano Foundation he co-developed a modern smart-contract platform (Aiken), runs the annual developer survey, and helped launch member-driven open-source initiatives and an international developer conference. His contributions show a mix of deep protocol-level work (coin selection, wallet APIs, serialization and property testing) and developer experience improvements that make complex blockchain systems more accessible. Notably, he applies functional programming principles beyond academia—refactoring docs, build systems and educational courses to improve maintainability and onboarding for the broader developer community.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics Physics & Philosophy, Bachelor's degree Mathematics Physics & Philosophy at BellevueMaster's degrees Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Master's degrees Applied Mathematics & Computer Science at ENSEEIHT
French, English
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Github Skills (49)
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schema-design10
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Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide
Feb 2016 - Aug 2021
Mostly adequate guide to FP (in javascript)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 211 commits, 158 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the "mostly-adequate-guide" repository by making changes to code examples and exercises related to functional programming in JavaScript. The commits focused on refactoring, fixing broken code, and currying functions within the context of the functional programming concepts presented in the guide. The contributions demonstrate a focus on the practical application of functional programming principles and refining code examples for clarity and correctness. The user also added a shell script to check exercises.
reactive-programmingjavascripthaskellfunctional-programming
cardano-foundation/cardano-wallet
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
HTTP server & command-line for managing UTxOs and HD wallets in Cardano.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 888 reviews, 3068 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthias's contributions primarily involve implementing and integrating new features into the API, specifically concerning stake pool management within the Cardano wallet. They introduced support for withdrawals and metadata, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the API's capabilities. Their work includes refactoring existing code, especially around coin selection, and addressing associated issues, indicating a focus on the core functionality and scalability of the transaction layer. These changes involved database modifications, refactoring, and integration with the existing API, indicating expertise in back-end development within the Cardano wallet ecosystem.
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