Micaiah Reid
Senior Software Engineer, Tooling at Solana Foundation
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMicaiah Reid is a Senior Software Engineer focused on developer tooling at the Solana Foundation with ten years of engineering experience spanning blockchain, full-stack, and electrical engineering. He co-founded Txtx and has driven core Ethereum tooling at ConsenSys, contributing to Ganache improvements such as EIP-2930 support, signing methods, and transaction pool logic. Comfortable across front-end and backend stacks, he has shipped UI fixes for Truffle Suite sites and deep protocol-level fixes that improve local blockchain developer workflows. Prior roles at Hiro and Lockheed Martin reflect an ability to move between high-assurance engineering and fast-moving crypto product teams. Based in Orlando, he blends startup grit with enterprise discipline and a hands-on open-source footprint that surfaces both user-facing polish and low-level protocol correctness.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Central Florida
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Github contributions (5)
trufflesuite/ganache
May 2021 - Jan 2023
:warning: The Truffle Suite is being sunset. For information on ongoing support, migration options and FAQs, visit the Consensys blog. Thank you for all the support over the years.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 542 reviews, 1234 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Micaiah primarily contributed to the `ganache` repository, focusing on Ethereum-related backend functionality. Their work included implementing EIP-2930 Access List Transactions, adding and fixing Ethereum signing methods and gas calculations, and addressing issues related to transaction processing, particularly in the transaction pool. They also worked on features related to account locking and the handling of different transaction types. Their contributions enhanced the core Ethereum logic within Ganache.
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trufflesuite/trufflesuite.com
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Trufflesuite website source ✨
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 34 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Micaiah primarily worked on front-end UI and content updates for the TruffleSuite website. Their contributions included fixing placeholder text color, updating text colors for dark theme compatibility, and modifying the announcement bar messaging. Additionally, the user made changes to links, updating the website to reflect new Ganache release and VS Code extension announcements.
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