Paolo Veronelli is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience, currently contributing to the Cardano Foundation and working as a remote Haskell developer. He has deep back-end expertise in Haskell and nix-based builds, notably contributing to the widely used cardano-wallet project by adding metadata handling, OpenAPI3 support, restoration benchmarks, and API tests. His background spans startups and research-focused teams—from IOHK to self-directed freelance projects—blending production-grade blockchain work with experimental web prototypes like QRManiacs. Based in Sesimbra, he brings pragmatic full-cycle development skills and a knack for integrating formal functional programming techniques into real-world distributed systems. Notably, he balances long-term freelance practice with impactful open-source contributions that improve wallet reliability and security.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Information Technology, undergraduated, High School, Information Technology, undergraduated at Liceo Scientifico
HTTP server & command-line for managing UTxOs and HD wallets in Cardano.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:525 reviews, 363 commits, 813 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily contributed to the backend logic of the cardano-wallet project. Their commits focused on modifying Haskell code within the nix build system to add support for a patched openapi3 library. They also made changes to the codebase to introduce features around handling transaction metadata and the incorporation of the new simple-metadata schema, and add tests for them. Additionally, the user addressed restoration benchmarks for the wallet, and added the API tests for wallet password updates and related transactions.
Contributions:164 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 12 years 6 months
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