Bryan Bishop
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarBryan Bishop is a software engineering consultant in Austin, Texas with 16 years’ experience building secure, production-grade systems across fintech, crypto, and developer tooling. He was an early technical hire at LedgerX and later co-founded and served as CTO for Custodia Bank, blending deep Bitcoin protocol knowledge with regulatory-compliant custody and payments engineering. As a consultant he architects trading and custody systems, serves as an expert witness/advisor, and implemented a cold-storage vault mechanism to limit theft exposure in real-world Bitcoin custody. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced python-bitcoinlib, worked with Bitcoin Core, and written Python tooling for reverse-engineering projects such as the Pokémon Red/Blue and Crystal disassemblies. He’s also shipped infrastructure that dramatically accelerated cloud migration testing and contributed drivers/parsers for hardware like the Emotiv EEG. Practical, detail-oriented and regulatory-savvy, he routinely bridges low-level protocol work with full-stack delivery for high-assurance systems.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (25)
api-doc10
python10
testing10
hacking10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
data-parsing10
bitcoin-core10
api10
reverse-engineering10
hackclient10
hardware-interface9
segwit9
assembly9
z809
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pret/pokecrystal
Mar 2012 - Jun 2015
Disassembly of Pokémon Crystal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:917 commits, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bryan's commits indicate the implementation of various utilities to help with the disassembly process for Pokémon Crystal. The primary focus of the work involved the development of python tooling to parse and disassemble the game's code. The user was making substantial progress with parsing and disassembling game data, suggesting a strong understanding of the game's architecture and assembly language.
capstonemongameboy-colorgbz80crystal
petertodd/python-bitcoinlib
Nov 2014 - Jun 2021
Python3 library providing an easy interface to the Bitcoin data structures and protocol.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 15 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the `python-bitcoinlib` library by implementing new features and addressing bugs related to Bitcoin data structures and protocol. They introduced a mock RPC implementation for unit testing and added functionalities like `OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY`. Further contributions include fixing typos and adding segwit examples, reflecting their involvement in enhancing the library's functionality and usability. They also worked on examples and made some documentation fixes.
bitcoin-datapythonpython3-librarycryptocurrencypython3
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