Salvatore Ingala
Senior Firmware Engineer And Bitcoin Expert at Ledger
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSalvatore Ingala is a Senior Firmware Engineer and Bitcoin specialist with over a decade of experience building secure embedded systems and contributing to cornerstone open-source Bitcoin projects. Based in Paris, he blends a rigorous academic background (PhD work in algorithms and optimization) with hands-on firmware, hardware-wallet integration, and test automation expertise gained at Ledger and in community projects like HWI and Electrum. He has improved hardware wallet compatibility, implemented new Ledger app protocols, and strengthened test suites—work that directly touches widely used Bitcoin infrastructure. Curious by nature and drawn to elegant, provable systems, he views Bitcoin as both a technical challenge and a societal safeguard, and he brings that perspective to pragmatic, security-focused engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree, Computer Science, 110/110 cum laude, Master Degree, Computer Science, 110/110 cum laude at University of CataniaComputer Science, Computer Science at Scuola Superiore di CataniaDeep Learning Nanodegree Foundation, Machine Learning, Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation, Machine Learning at Udacity
English, Italian
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Github Skills (17)
ec10
pytest10
python10
bitcoin-wallet10
plugin-development10
bitcoin10
el10
ledger10
bitcoins10
bitcoin-core10
hardware-wallet10
cryptography10
test-automation10
api8
bash8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin-core/HWI
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Salvatore primarily focused on enhancing the `hwilib` library, which provides an interface for Bitcoin hardware wallets. Their contributions include fixing output formatting, adding support for new Ledger Bitcoin app versions by implementing the new protocol, and incorporating message signing functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed specific limitations related to older app versions, streamlining the interface for improved compatibility and functionality. The changes made indicate a strong understanding of hardware wallet interaction and Bitcoin transaction processing.
bitcoinhardware-wallet
spesmilo/electrum
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 22 days
Contributions summary:Salvatore primarily contributed to the Ledger hardware wallet integration for the Electrum Bitcoin wallet. Their work involved modifying the Ledger plugin to support new versions of the Bitcoin app, including improvements to error handling. They also refactored code related to Ledger client creation and addressed issues related to multiple signing operations. This included updating Ledger-related dependencies and removing outdated code related to older hardware.
bitcoin-walletbitcoinpythonelectrumlightning
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