Ralph Pichler
Sales at peter.at
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Pichler is a Vienna-based professional blending 11 years of technical and sales experience, currently working as a High Ticket Closer. Trained in Computer Software Engineering at HTL Spengergasse, he has practical backend development contributions to notable open-source Swarm projects (ethersphere/swarm and bee), where he improved cheque processing, balance management, retrieval accounting and ERC20 support—skills that reveal a strong grasp of distributed systems and payment logic. His career mixes hands-on web and React Native development with client-facing sales roles, giving him a rare combination of engineering fluency and commercial acumen. Comfortable moving between product implementation and closing high-value deals, he excels at translating complex technical constraints into persuasive business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Matura Computer Software Engineering, Matura Computer Software Engineering at HTL Spengergasse
Github Skills (10)
erc2010
contract10
accounting10
go10
acc10
swarm10
ethereum10
blockchain10
p2p9
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ethersphere/bee
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:341 reviews, 188 commits, 326 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ralph primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the project by fixing bugs and implementing changes to the retrieval and accounting systems. They improved the retrieval test by implementing EachPeerRev instead of EachPeer, ensuring the test was correctly retrieving data. The user also added initial accounting functionality for retrieval, improving the ability of the system to track and manage resource usage. The user further enhanced the project by adding payment threshold and settlement functionalities.
golangpublishingswarmbeepermissionless
ethersphere/swarm
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Swarm: Censorship resistant storage and communication infrastructure for a truly sovereign digital society
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 54 PRs, 276 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ralph primarily worked on the "swap" functionality within the Swarm project, refactoring and optimizing cheque processing and balance management. Their contributions include moving balance, cheque, and peer-related data to a peer-centric structure for improved efficiency and simplifying accounting logic. They also addressed RPC test failures, ensuring accurate balance queries, and added support for ERC20 tokens. Furthermore, they were responsible for refactoring the cashout process, improving its modularity.
swarmcensorshipblockchaincommunicationinfrastructure
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