Nicolas Luck
Core Contributor at Newfoundation
Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Luck is a core contributor and founder with 14 years building decentralized systems and developer tooling, currently active at Newfoundation and leading Coasys DAO. He was a Holochain core lead developer and architect, contributing deep Rust backend work such as state dump/debug APIs and protocol-level chat and identity features in prominent Holochain repositories. Nicolas combines academic rigor (Diplom in Computer Science) with practical product creation—founding Perspect3vism to explore a morphogenetic web and designing The ADAM Layer as an inventor. He focuses on peer-to-peer, identity-aware architectures that favor low-resource, mobile-friendly deployments, and brings a systems-thinking approach informed by formal CS training and psychology studies. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on innovator who moves between low-level implementation and high-level social-technical design.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatiker, Informatik, 1,1, Diplom Informatiker, Informatik, 1,1 at Universität DortmundPsychologie, Psychologie at Fernuniversität Hagen
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
back-end-development10
holochain10
rust10
api-design9
validations9
debug9
debugging9
validation9
blockchain9
data-structures8
data-structure8
wasm-pack8
rust-wasm8
software-design7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
holochain/holochain-rust
Jul 2018 - May 2020
DEPRECATED. The Holochain framework implemented in rust with a redux style internal state-model.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2201 commits, 477 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas's commits primarily focused on enhancing the state dump functionality within the Holochain Rust framework. Their work involved adding, and reversing the source chain information within the state dump object and its rendering process. They also contributed to the debug API, implementing a function to retrieve running instances.
internalmodel-staterustreduxredux-style
holochain/holochain-proto
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Holographic storage for distributed applications -- a validating monotonic DHT "backed" by authoritative hashchains for data provenance (a Ceptr sub-project)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 43 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nicolas appears to be refactoring and expanding the functionality of a Holochain-based chat application. They are renaming data models, reorganizing code into modular files, and defining API endpoints and validation logic for core chat features such as listing rooms, messages, and managing users. The contributions also include the addition of registration and profile management capabilities within the application's backend, demonstrating a focus on user identity and access control.
authoritativeholographicdhtdistributed-applicationsprovenance
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