Nicolas Marshall is a Rust-focused blockchain engineer with 11 years' experience building infrastructure, smart contracts, DeFi systems and secure identity/auth flows. He has shipped production APIs, OAuth/web3 identity servers and key/secret management for NGOs, validators and staking-as-a-service platforms across Substrate, Solana, Ethereum and NEAR. Comfortable across distributed systems tooling (Postgres, Kafka, Docker, OpenTelemetry) and full-stack TypeScript frontends, he bridges low-level crypto primitives and user-facing APIs. His background includes cross-chain yield experiments, oracles priced in USD and browser/mobile Rust clients—showing a knack for pragmatic R&D that turns research ideas into deployable services. Based in North Tyneside and educated at Centrale Lyon, he combines engineering rigor with applied cryptoeconomics and observability-first production practices.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in Engineering Computer Science, Master's degree in Engineering Computer Science at Centrale Lyon
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