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)
sh10
command-line-tool10
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.
command-line-tooljqbitcoincommand-linecli
pmienk/libbitcoin-consensus
Mar 2015 - Jul 2024
Bitcoin Consensus Library
Contributions:348 pushes, 23 branches in 9 years 5 months
consistencybitcoinconsensus
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