Nina Breznik is a founder and tech researcher with 12 years of experience building infrastructure for the next-generation Internet from the UK, blending product, community and front-end engineering. She co-leads Playproject.io and coordinates community learning at Wizard Amigos, translating grassroots code camps and meetups into sustained developer ecosystems. Previously she contributed UI/UX and styling improvements to high-profile Ethereum projects like Remix, enhancing the debugger and making the IDE more themeable and accessible. Her background spans startups, social impact (co-founding RefugeesWork) and a stint at the Ethereum Foundation, reflecting a mix of entrepreneurial grit and blockchain engineering. Trained in humanities, political science and marketing, she brings rare cross-disciplinary insight into user-centered product design and community-driven tech. Colleagues describe her as a P2P “hacktivist” who quietly bridges design, code and civic-minded initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) South Slavic Languages with Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) South Slavic Languages with Literature at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science - Policy Analysis and Public Administration, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science - Policy Analysis and Public Administration at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Contributions:246 commits, 59 PRs, 276 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Nina primarily focused on UI/UX improvements and restructuring within the Remix IDE documentation repository. They made significant changes to the UI, including reorganizing tabs, updating the appearance of the components and improving general layout. The user's contributions show an effort to improve the user experience within the IDE, particularly in terms of accessibility and UI clarity.
This has been moved to https://github.com/ethereum/remix-project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:57 commits, 40 PRs, 67 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nina contributed to the styling and UI of the Remix debugger, making improvements to the visual presentation and user experience. They refactored the style guide, enabling the use of themeable components across the application. Furthermore, the user made flexbox fixes and integrated style guide elements into various UI components like the TxBrowser and ButtonNavigator, ensuring consistent styling throughout the Remix IDE.
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