Phillip Mienk
Co-Founder at Bitware Co.
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Mienk is a software engineer and co-founder with 12 years of experience building financial cryptography products and backend systems from Redmond, Washington. He co-founded Bitware in 2014 to develop crypto-focused financial tools and has strong C++ and low-level networking expertise demonstrated by contributions to libbitcoin projects, including command-line tooling and cross-platform system libraries. His work spans encoding schemes, transaction plumbing, Obelisk integration, and build/test infrastructure—showing both protocol-level aptitude and practical engineering for reliable builds and CI. Prior roles at Friendsource and Microsoft add marketplace and policy-management system experience, and he holds a Masters in Computer Science from UIUC. Notably, he combines startup leadership with hands-on open-source contributions to critical Bitcoin tooling.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (15)
command-line-tool10
sh10
bitcoin10
bash10
script10
c-language10
shell10
bitcoins10
cprogramming-language10
scripting10
blockchain10
build-automation9
zeromq9
cmake8
test-automation7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer
Jun 2014 - Dec 2022
Bitcoin Command Line Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 234 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Phillip contributed to the Bitcoin command-line tool by implementing and modifying several features. They worked on base58 encoding and decoding, mnemonic encoding, and updated dependencies for improved functionality. The user also added support for sending transactions and integrating with the Obelisk client for fetching block headers, transaction indexes, confirmations, and stealth addresses.
bitcoincommand-line-tool
libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
Bitcoin Cross-Platform C++ Development Toolkit
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 386 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily worked on the Bitcoin Cross-Platform C++ Development Toolkit, focusing on improving the send template, install scripts, and test configurations. Their contributions include normalising install scripts for parallel builds, introducing changes related to testing Travis CI tolerance and correcting build breaks, and updating dependencies. The user's work impacts code relating to network communication and the building process.
bitcoincpp
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