Philip Robinson
Staff Engineer at Blockstream
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Robinson is a Staff Engineer specializing in Rust, blockchain protocols, and applied computer vision with nine years of professional experience spanning academia and industry. After eight years as a lecturer and researcher in robotics and vision at the University of Johannesburg, he transitioned to protocol engineering at Tari Labs where he led Rust development and implemented critical transaction/kernel signing, ordering macros, and range proof integration for the Tari protocol. He now works on Liquid at Blockstream, bringing deep cryptographic and systems expertise to federated sidechain development. Philip combines academic rigor (D.Eng. and M.Eng. in image processing/electrical engineering) with hands-on open-source contributions, making him adept at translating complex math into production-grade, auditable code.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg 
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (7)
transaction10
error-handling10
code-signing10
rust10
signing10
cryptography10
blockchain9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tari-project/tari
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
The Tari protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:624 reviews, 370 commits, 362 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Philip implemented a #[derive(...)] macro for order-based ordering and added several struct trait implementations to enable the ordering and comparisons required. The user also added a transaction kernel signature verification function with error handling and implemented the signing. Other contributions include the implementation of the range proofs into the Transaction, and transaction building protocols.
rustreactblockchaintari
philipr-za/rust-lightning
Oct 2018 - Feb 2025
Rust-Lightning, not Rusty's Lightning
Contributions:41 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 5 months
rustrustylightning
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