Noah Lanson
Emergency Vehicle Operator
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolNoah Lanson is a pragmatic software engineer and alpine operations leader with six years’ experience blending back-end development, test automation and hands-on safety leadership. Based in Canberra, he contributes to the prominent rust-bitcoin library—implementing cryptographic features like Pay-to-Taproot and Schnorr-related types—while applying production-grade automation and DevOps practices from his work at Services Australia. Equally at home leading ski patrol teams across Japan and Australia, Noah brings calm decision-making under pressure and a systems-oriented mindset to both code and field operations. His background in computer science and digital technology, combined with real-world incident response experience, makes him especially effective at building robust, secure systems that tolerate failure.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityCert III in Information Digital Technology (Digital Animation), Cert III in Information Digital Technology (Digital Animation) at TAFE NSWHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Bradfield Senior College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
tapi10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
signature10
cryptography10
taps10
rust10
script-engine9
script9
hashing-algorithm8
blockchain8
web3js6
angular6
haskell6
ethereum6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Rust Bitcoin library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Noah primarily focused on implementing and refactoring cryptographic functionality within the Rust Bitcoin library. Their contributions include adding support for Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) addresses, which involved changes to address and schnorr modules, the creation of new types, and modifications to key handling. They also made improvements related to public key handling and implemented several trait implementations to enable conversions.
bitcoinrust
nlanson/AmongUsCockBot
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
The one and only AmongUs Cock Bot.
Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
among-usdiscordbotdiscord-botamong
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