Michele Balistreri
Falegnameria at Lavoratore autonomo
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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RockstarMichele Balistreri is an experienced professional based in Rome with a decade of hands-on experience blending craftsmanship and software development. While running a carpentry business (Falegnameria) since 2006, he has also contributed to prominent open-source Ethereum projects like Status, working across mobile (Keycard integration on Android/iOS) and backend (go-ethereum tweaks, transaction and activity sync features). His work shows attention to security, UX and interoperability—evident in improving Keycard flows and making signing methods more robust to varied chain ID formats. Michele combines practical, client-focused craftsmanship with technical problem-solving in decentralized systems, bringing a pragmatic mindset and multidisciplinary curiosity to engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (25)
react-native10
mobile-development10
clojure-cli10
clojure10
cryptocurrency10
go10
ethereum10
cryptography10
blockchain10
clojurescript10
reagent9
ios9
react-native-app9
android9
wallet8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-mobile
May 2020 - Sep 2022
a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:60 reviews, 64 commits, 121 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michele's contributions center around implementing and maintaining Keycard functionality within the Status mobile application. They made significant changes to Keycard-related code, including updates to the Keycard SDK, handling account removal, implementing backup keycard creation, and enabling the changing of the pairing code. These commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the user experience and security aspects related to Keycard integration.
ethereumwalletiosmobilemessenger
status-im/status-go
May 2021 - Dec 2021
The Status module that consumes go-ethereum
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 26 reviews, 8 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Michele primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Status Go project. Their work included modifying the `go-ethereum` library to accept chain ID as either a JSON number or a string in `signTypedData_v3` and `signTypedData_v4` methods. They also added and modified transaction commands to include a ChatID and added an account conversion feature. Furthermore, they added support for syncing activity center and marking all read in community.
golanggo-ethereumconsumesethereumblockchain
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