Stepan Snigirev
Senior Quantum Engineer at planqc
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolStepan Snigirev is a Senior Quantum Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging experimental quantum physics and applied crypto tooling. He holds a PhD in Physics from MIPT and progressed from postdoctoral research in quantum simulation to co-founding Crypto Advance GmbH, where he served as CTO before joining planqc to help build a quantum computer. Equally at home in the lab and the codebase, he contributes to open-source Bitcoin tooling like Specter Desktop, improving multisig workflows and QR-driven UX for hardware wallet integrations. Based in Garching near Munich, he combines deep experimental know-how with practical systems engineering, and brings a rare hacker’s intuition about cryptographic tooling to hardware-focused quantum engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
bitcoin10
javascript10
user-interface10
bitcoins10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
bitcoin-core10
cryptography9
base64-encoding9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cryptoadvance/specter-desktop
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 153 reviews, 479 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Stepan's contributions focused on enhancing the Specter Desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core, with a significant emphasis on implementing and refining user interface elements and functionality. They were instrumental in implementing features related to multisig wallets, including both display and signing logic. Furthermore, they worked on improving the user experience by integrating QR code scanning for transaction inputs and outputs, as well as refining the process of importing and exporting partially signed Bitcoin transactions.
bitcoin-corehardware-walletspecter-desktop
micro-bitcoin/micro-bitcoin.github.io
Apr 2019 - Oct 2023
website
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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