Byron Houwens
Senior Software Engineer at Allium
Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolByron Houwens is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zug, Switzerland with 12 years of experience building high-throughput data systems and applied AI solutions. He has led engineering and product teams across fintech and blockchain startups, designing novel data encoding protocols, fast payment settlement networks, and scaling event indexing to 200,000+ events/second for sub-100ms DeFi trade execution. At Allium he focuses on the crossroads of data engineering and applied AI, bringing a pragmatic, production-first mindset summed up by his GitHub quip, "But it works on my machine." His background spans end-to-end systems—from ETL pipelines and investor dashboards for finance clients to architecting double-entry blockchains—combining deep technical execution with product intuition. Known for shipping reliable, auditable systems, he thrives on squeezing latency out of complex distributed flows while keeping teams aligned.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BTech (Hons) in Graphic Design Educational/Instructional Media Design, BTech (Hons) in Graphic Design Educational/Instructional Media Design at Nelson Mandela University
English, Afrikaans, German
Github Skills (86)
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cryptocurrency9
mathjax9
webpack-loader9
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dart-sass9
casperjs8
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typography8
blockchain-network8
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slimerjs8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AIBlockOfficial/Chain
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
The 2-Way blockchain
Contributions:16 releases, 16 reviews, 64 PRs in 1 year 5 months
blockchain
Zenotta/Block-Explorer
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
The repo of Zenotta's block explorer
Contributions:1 review, 84 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
blockchainblock-explorerexplorerzenotta
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