Willem Olding
Senior Solutions Engineer at Boundless Network
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolWillem Olding is a Senior Solutions Engineer and computer systems specialist with 11 years of experience, including 8+ years in crypto and over 7 years of professional Rust development. He’s driven by building and scaling distributed systems—from contributing core functionality to the Holochain Rust framework to leading R&D and solutions roles at ChainSafe, RISC Zero, and Boundless Network. His background blends rigorous academic research (a PhD focused on probabilistic models for land-cover change detection) with hands-on protocol design, IoT services, and developer tooling. Known for refactoring complex core components and shipping production-ready primitives, he bridges research and product delivery while mentoring teams on Rust and decentralized architectures. Based in Hobart, Tasmania, Willem often brings a data-driven, research-informed approach to practical engineering problems—an uncommon mix that surfaces in both protocol design and developer experience work.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Systems Engineering at University of Tasmania
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Github Skills (16)
holochain10
rust10
back-end-development10
blazor-webassembly9
webassembly9
api8
blockchain8
apidoc8
gdal6
pandas6
centos6
holochain-rust6
anaconda6
linux6
python6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
holochain/holochain-rust
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
DEPRECATED. The Holochain framework implemented in rust with a redux style internal state-model.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1129 commits, 172 PRs, 614 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Willem contributed to the development of the Holochain-Rust framework, focusing on core functionalities related to linking, validating, and retrieving entries. They were involved in adding new features and functionality to the API, along with the maintenance of core functionality. Their work also included refactoring and improving the code within the core components of the system.
holochainreduxrustblockchainwasm
holochain/basic-chat-redux
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
A barebones chat hApp for learning and testing
Contributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
testing
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