Aidan Salzmann
Co-Founder at Stride Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Salzmann is a Co-Founder and engineer with 10 years of experience building DeFi infrastructure, currently leading development of multichain liquid staking at Stride Labs in New York. He combines backend protocol work—initializing chains, stakeibc modules and interchain accounts—with front-end contributions to the widely used Osmosis UI, demonstrating full‑stack fluency across the Cosmos ecosystem. His trajectory spans product engineering, machine learning and VR research, giving him a cross-disciplinary lens for designing resilient, user-facing blockchain primitives. Known for shipping core infrastructure and hands-on open-source contributions, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with practical protocol-level expertise.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Science, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
English, German
Github Skills (17)
cosmos-sdk10
typescript310
block-chain10
typescript10
tailwind-css10
next-js10
typescript210
bc10
go10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
cosmos9
osmosis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Stride-Labs/stride
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Stride: Multichain Liquid Staking
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 887 reviews, 932 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aidan's commits primarily focus on setting up the core infrastructure and initial module scaffolding for the project, Stride, a multichain liquid staking platform. They are responsible for initializing the chain, creating modules for stakeibc, and integrating interchain accounts. The work also involved setting up various parameters for the modules, and setting up a basic module handler, indicating involvement in setting up the base infrastructure for core stakeibc modules.
liquid-stakingstakingconsensusethereumliquid
osmosis-labs/osmosis-frontend
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Web interface for Osmosis Zone
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Osmosis Zone web interface. Their work involved adding and updating gauge configurations, specifically focusing on integrating new token pairs for liquidity pools. These changes modified the `feature-flag.ts` file, indicating the addition of new gauges to enable features for different token pairs. This suggests a focus on enabling and integrating new trading features within the application.
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