Torkel Rogstad
Co-Founder at Bare Bitcoin
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTorkel Rogstad is a Co-Founder and backend-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building Bitcoin-first products and infrastructure from Oslo. He leads Bare Bitcoin, a fast Norwegian on/off-ramp that integrates Vipps and BankID and supports Lightning withdrawals, combining product-first thinking with hands-on engineering. His open-source contributions span prominent Bitcoin projects like btcd and lnd—adding JSON-RPC wallet features, ZeroMQ notifications, Docker/CLI improvements and edge-case fixes—demonstrating deep protocol and operational knowledge. He also contributed testing improvements to the widely used Go testify toolkit, adding assertions and broader comparability support that help harden Go codebases. Comfortable across full-stack, backend and DevOps areas, he brings a pragmatic focus on usability, security and developer experience. An interesting detail: he routinely bridges product requirements and low-level Bitcoin mechanics, shipping features that turn complex node capabilities into simple consumer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oslo
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
json-rpc10
assertion10
docker10
lightning-network10
testing10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
unzip10
dockers10
zip10
cryptocurrency10
testify10
go10
toolkits10
cryptography10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
stretchr/testify
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Torkel's primary contribution was the addition of a `Never` assertion, expanding the testing capabilities of the `testify` library. This involved creating new functions in `require` and `assert` packages, and modifying existing files to integrate the new assertion. Furthermore, the user implemented features allowing custom comparable types and time.Time objects to be compared, enhancing the library's flexibility. In addition, the user made a series of changes to improve compatibility across Go versions.
golangassertionstestingtoolkittestify
btcsuite/btcd
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Torkel primarily focused on enhancing the `btcd` Bitcoin implementation by adding new JSON-RPC calls. These additions included `generatetoaddress`, `estimatesmartfee`, `fundrawtransaction`, and several wallet management commands (`backupwallet`, `loadwallet`, `unloadwallet`). The user also addressed transaction serialization formats and implemented a zero-MQ notification system. These changes increased the functionality of the Bitcoin node.
golangfull-nodebitcoin-nodebtcdcryptocurrency
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