Andrea Franz
Blockchain Consultant at Nocturnal Foo
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Franz is a senior software engineer and blockchain consultant based in the UK with 18 years of software experience and four years focused on web3 technologies, from low-level protocols and wallets to DeFi and smart contracts. He is polyglot and infrastructure-minded—regularly shipping production systems in Go, Solidity, TypeScript, Elixir and more—and enjoys building distributed systems and developer tooling. A prolific open-source contributor, he has shipped tools and fixes across projects like Status (implementing keycard support and transaction signing on mobile) and status-go (improving mnemonic/BIP32 compatibility and adding entropy tests), and helped decentralize Gitcoin with Web3 integrations across Polygon and zkSync. Pragmatic and detail-focused, he bridges protocol-level correctness with polished user-facing apps and consistently publishes his work on GitHub.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Github Skills (34)
bip3210
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
css10
sass10
user-interface10
ui-design10
interface-design10
cryptocurrency10
go10
front-end-development10
mnemonic10
web3js10
vue10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gravityblast/web-app-theme
Jan 2009 - Feb 2012
A simple theme for web apps
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:183 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on styling and theming the web application's user interface. They made several CSS-based changes, including modifying the styles of headings, the date display, and table elements. Additionally, the user implemented a theme-switching functionality with a default, green, purple, and black-grey theme. These contributions indicate a focus on visual design and user experience improvements.
csssimple-themeweb-apps
status-im/status-go
Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
The Status module that consumes go-ethereum
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 100 commits, 109 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on improving the `extkeys` package within the `status-go` repository. Their contributions include fixing entropy strength validation in the MnemonicPhrase function, ensuring compatibility with BIP32 wallets by updating the master key generation using "Bitcoin seed" as HMAC key, and adding tests for mnemonic word lists. Additionally, the user updated the code to derive child keys with padding, and added file/stream log handlers to the StatusNode.
golanggo-ethereumconsumesethereumblockchain
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