Eric Martindale
Founder & CEO at Fabric
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Martindale is a founder and CEO with 14 years building distributed systems, cryptography-enabled services, and developer-facing platforms from San Francisco. He leads Fabric, a marketplace-driven distributed messaging protocol that combines economic routing incentives with deterministic smart-contract execution, and has a track record founding and scaling earlier platforms including Verse and Coursefork. A longtime Bitcoin advocate and former Blockstream and BitPay engineer, he contributes to notable open-source projects like Bitcore and Insight—working across front-end UX and back-end cryptographic authentication (bitauth). Known for treating code as craft, he blends product strategy, developer evangelism, and deep systems design to pursue a more private-by-default, human-friendly web.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Oak Hill AcademySystems Science and Theory, Systems Science and Theory at The Nakamoto Institute
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
transaction10
javascript10
user-authentication10
bitcoin10
authentication10
bitcoins10
security10
transactionscope10
bitcore10
cryptography10
angularjs10
blockchain10
html10
nodejs10
transaction-manager10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
bitpay/bitauth
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Authenticate with web services utilizing the same strategy as Bitcoin.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the back-end functionalities of the bitauth library. They implemented features for generating, getting, and verifying cryptographic signatures, including functions for signing and verifying data. Additionally, the user created example server and client implementations to showcase how to use the library's authentication mechanisms, along with middleware for handling requests. The user's work focused on enabling secure authentication for web services using cryptographic techniques.
bitcoinwebservice
bitpay/bitcore
Jan 2014 - May 2015
A full stack for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric's commits primarily involve modifications to the Insight API project, focusing on front-end updates and improvements to the sync status display. They implemented changes to the header and status views, including visual elements and progress indicators. Additionally, the user contributed to back-end configuration, allowing for the specification of the network environment and renaming of the server file.
bitcoinblockchainfull-stack
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