Blog of Parity Technologies

In 2017, Bastian Köcher, aka “Basti,” applied for a job he thought was for a C++ developer. It turned out they were looking for someone to code in the new Rust programming language.

Benjamin Kampmann, aka GNUnicorn (GitHub, Twitter), first got into development when he built a Geocities website with a group of friends. At that point he realized the potential of building IT and communications

When Shawn Tabrizi (GitHub, Twitter) was at Microsoft, he would wait every day to go home and hack on Ethereum smart contracts. After reading Mastering Ethereum by Gavin Wood and Andreas Antonopoulos, Shawn

Wei Tang (GitHub, Twitter) is most commonly identified online by his handle @sorpaas, a Lojban compound word roughly meaning “many hopes.” His handle is accompanied by a serene avatar of an island with

“It was a string of numbers they gave me. It will never work,” Jaco Greeff (GitHub, Twitter) recalls about his first impressions of Bitcoin. An electrical engineer by training, Jaco wrote embedded systems,

Provisioning systems and tracking down bugs isn’t everyone’s idea of fun, but it is Erin Grasmick’s. With a degree in computer science, Erin always assumed she would be a programmer.

A Parity OG, core developer Tomasz Drwięga (GitHub, Twitter) joined Parity as employee number seven (or 007, as he points out) in January 2016 and watched the company quickly grow from four developers

Parity Technologies is made up of a large number of talented developers who are often as passionate about the technologies they build with as those they build. Jack Fransham falls into this category,

Substrate 1.0 Beta is out now, opening the door to a radical acceleration in blockchain and decentralised application development. Substrate is an open-source technology stack that makes it easy to create a

Jutta Steiner recently announced Fredrik Harrysson (Twitter, Github) as Parity’s new CTO. I sat down with Fredrik to chat about his vision for Parity’s software development, open source software, company culture,