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People of Parity: Bastian Köcher

October10 04, 2020 in

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People of Parity: Bastian Köcher

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. So he said, “Fine, I’ll learn it…

People of Parity: Benjamin Kampmann

October10 16, 2019 in

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People of Parity: Benjamin Kampmann

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 tech…

People of Parity: Wei Tang

June6 26, 2019 in

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People of Parity: Wei Tang

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 a house and a…

People of Parity: Jaco Greeff

May5 15, 2019 in

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People of Parity: Jaco Greeff

“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, C++, C…

People of Parity: Tomasz Drwięga

March3 07, 2019 in

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People of Parity: Tomasz Drwięga

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 hacking in…

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