Valentine Wallace
Open Source Developer at Spiral
United States
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Top SchoolValentine Wallace is an open source developer and UC Berkeley computer science student with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience focused on Bitcoin Core and the Lightning Network. He has shipped backend refactors and robust testing for prominent Lightning projects like rust-lightning and lnd, improving architecture, channel-monitor handling, and invoice/chain notification reliability. At Lightning Labs he contributed mobile UI features for a cross-platform Lightning wallet, and at Spiral he continues to drive open-source improvements in the Bitcoin ecosystem. His background includes production internships at Microsoft where he built developer-facing tools and a Cortana skill, reflecting a knack for practical developer productivity features. Known in the community for principled stances and deep protocol understanding, he combines low-level protocol work with user-facing product polish.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Junior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Junior at University of California, Berkeley
English
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Github Skills (19)
react-native10
lightning-network10
testing10
go10
cryptography10
rust10
mobile-ui10
architecture9
multiplatform9
javascript9
user-interface9
cross-platform9
bitcoins9
ui-design9
interface-design9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lightningdevkit/rust-lightning
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3416 reviews, 351 commits, 338 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Valentine's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the rust-lightning library. They addressed circular references within the codebase, introduced new features like a background processor, and improved the handling of channel monitor updates. The changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the library's architecture, internal workings, and the underlying lightning network protocol. They also improved existing tests and added new testing features.
rustyrustlightninglightning-networkbitcoin
lightninglabs/lightning-app
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
An easy-to-use cross-platform Lightning wallet
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:369 commits, 176 PRs, 289 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Valentine primarily focused on developing the user interface for a cross-platform Lightning wallet, specifically for mobile platforms. They implemented new UI components such as `TextButton`, `CopyButton`, and a QR code generator. They also added features to the payment request view and refactored existing components. The user also made adjustments to the mobile-specific aspects, such as incorporating the mobile navigation to a home screen after setting a pin, ensuring that the UI has the correct appearance on mobile.
lightningwalletcross-platformlightning-networkbitcoin
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