Sebastian Fuchs
Head Of Software Development at SiteKiosk
Senden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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SeniorSebastian Fuchs is a pragmatic software leader and founder with eight years of experience spanning embedded hardware, full-stack development, and distributed ledger technology. As Head of Software Development at SiteKiosk and former developer at Provisio, he blends C/C++ systems expertise with modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks (Node, React, Go) to deliver robust, production-ready solutions. He founded a DLT startup focused on sustainability and efficiency, and has contributed backend fixes to the prominent IOTA HORNET fullnode project—tackling CORS, ZMQ, PoW outsourcing, and auto-peering improvements. Comfortable moving between low-level firmware and cloud-facing services, he’s known for pragmatic cleanups and interoperability work that smooths integration between projects. Based in Senden, Germany, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a hands-on approach to building scalable, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (3)
iota10
go10
zeromq9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
iotaledger/hornet
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
HORNET is a powerful IOTA fullnode software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 5 reviews, 194 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on addressing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) issues within the webAPI plugin, ensuring proper functionality. They made several iterations to fix the ZMQ protocol implementation and Trinity compatibility. The user also contributed to fixing the code to outsource Proof of Work (PoW) from Trinity to HORNET. Furthermore, the user worked on general code cleanup and merging of remote branches, including adding new topics for confirmed transactions and updated the code for auto-peering purposes.
golanghornetfullnodeiotaiot
IoTMOD/hornet
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
HORNET is a lightweight alternative to IOTA's fullnode software “IRI”
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
hornetfullnodeiotairciri
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