Shane Fontaine
Software Engineer at hop-protocol
Mineral Wells, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolShane Fontaine is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience specializing in blockchain and backend systems, based in Mineral Wells, Texas. He contributes to notable open-source projects in the Ethereum ecosystem — including Hop Protocol and an unofficial Uniswap Python client — where he has improved node performance, transaction handling, liquidity operations, and core exchange flows. Comfortable across full-stack and backend roles, Shane combines pragmatic bug-fixing and logging enhancements with feature work and test-driven integrations that touch on real on-chain transfers. His background reflects a strong practical focus on reliability and performance in decentralized finance tooling, and he brings a knack for finding subtle data-processing issues that improve production resilience.
10 years of coding experience
Oklahoma Job Corps Academy
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (35)
uniswap10
python10
typescript10
api10
web3js10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
trading9
testing9
solidity9
apidoc9
blockchain9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
uniswap-python/uniswap-python
Dec 2018 - May 2021
🦄 The unofficial Python client for the Uniswap exchange.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 135 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily focused on developing the back-end functionality for a Python-based Uniswap client. They started by setting up the project structure with `setup.py` and then implemented core features such as maker and taker fee functions and price endpoints. The user then added the ability to add and remove liquidity, integrating with a blockchain and adding associated tests and added the ability to transfer after an exchange. They also worked on refactoring and improving the code for maintainability.
fixprotocolexchangepythoncoinbaseethereum
hop-protocol/hop
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
🐰 Hop Protocol Monorepo
Role in this project:Back-end & Full-stack Developer
Back-end & Full-stack DeveloperContributions:308 reviews, 2251 commits, 229 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the Hop Protocol monorepo by focusing on improving the performance of the Node package related to token transfers and the corresponding APIs. The user was involved in identifying, and fixing bugs related to handling of transactions and data processing as well as adding additional logging to improve performance of the node. This involved modifications to existing files within the packages/hop-node directory to add in additional functionality and data handling.
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