Michael Dietz
Chief Technology Officer at wayaai
ATX, Norway
Summary
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RockstarMichael Dietz is a pragmatic Chief Technology Officer with 10 years of hands-on engineering experience, currently leading technology at Bird Buddy from ATX, Norway. He blends embedded systems and IoT expertise—demonstrated by BLE stack and Heart Rate Monitor work on Nordic Semiconductor's pc-ble-driver—with rigorous QA and test automation across major cryptocurrency node projects. His open-source contributions span Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin-ABC, and Peercoin, where he improved test coverage and optimized functional tests to catch edge cases like mempool behavior with wallets disabled. Comfortable both shipping low-level firmware fixes and driving developer-facing reliability, he focuses on making systems observable, testable, and maintainable. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering tradeoffs that reduce flakiness and speed delivery in complex distributed and embedded systems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
python10
decentralization10
bitcoin10
bluetooth-le10
bitcoins10
functional-testing10
btle10
sys10
blockchain10
embedded10
bluetooth-low-energy10
test-automation10
ec9
c-programming9
multisig9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:198 reviews, 25 commits, 25 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed by enhancing test coverage and improving the reliability of the Bitcoin Core codebase. They added new functional tests to address specific scenarios, including testing mempool behavior with wallet disabled, and verifying the functionality of multisig and PSBTs within the system. The contributions extended existing test suites and ensured that crucial functionalities work under various conditions.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
peercoin/peercoin
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Reference implementation of the Peercoin protocol.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed significantly to the test suite, enhancing coverage and reliability. They wrote and modified functional tests, ensuring proper behavior of the codebase, particularly in areas such as mempool management, transaction processing, and wallet functionality. The commits reveal an emphasis on thorough testing of various scenarios within the Peercoin protocol.
proof-of-stakeblockchaindecentralizedminablecryptocurrency
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