Philip Halsall
Director Of Solutions Architecture at Mina Foundation
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolPhilip Halsall is a seasoned solutions architect and engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on experience across trading systems, capital markets, and blockchain developer relations, now directing Solutions Architecture at the Mina Foundation from Hong Kong. He blends deep low-latency trading systems expertise (C++, C#, CEP) with data science and developer advocacy, having transitioned from roles at Block.one and Seek Asia into blockchain protocol productization and community engagement. Comfortable at the intersection of research, developer enablement, and enterprise architecture, he has repeatedly moved between building core systems and translating them for developer audiences. A mathematician by training, Philip’s career arc reveals a pragmatic curiosity: he surfed the evolution from OTC derivatives engines to decentralized protocols, bringing market-grade engineering practices to emerging crypto infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Hons Mathematics with Computer Science, Bsc Hons Mathematics with Computer Science at London Metropolitan University
Github Skills (31)
ietf10
solidity10
blockchain-platform10
contract10
cryptocurrency10
ethereum10
blockchain10
eosio10
zk10
smart-contracts10
mina10
ocaml9
devtools9
chain9
wallet9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
halsaphi/docs2
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
Docs website for the Mina Protocol.
Contributions:146 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
EOSIO/welcome
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
Documentation that covers EOSIO Overview, Getting Started and Protocol documents
Contributions:101 reviews, 291 commits, 74 PRs in 10 months
ietfcoverseosio
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