Gary Rowe
Retired at Putting my feet up for a while
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Rowe is a retired software leader with 14 years of commercial development experience across finance, government, telecoms, cryptoassets, open source and startups. He has held executive engineering roles—most recently as Chief Development Officer at an Ethereum staking provider—and has contributed significant back-end and full-stack work to notable open-source crypto projects such as XChange and MultiBit, helping to architect modular exchange integrations and BIP21-compliant wallet support. Known for turning complex domain requirements into maintainable systems, he blends hands-on coding, architectural refactoring and operational leadership. Now focused on hobbies, travel and family, he still retains a curious contributor’s mindset evidenced by longstanding open-source involvement and a background in physics from the University of Exeter.
14 years of coding experience
BSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at University of Exeter
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
exchange-online10
apidoc10
exchange-server10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
integrations10
java10
cryptocurrency10
exchange10
javas10
api10
architecture9
command-line-arguments9
user-interface9
argument-parsing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Multibit-Legacy/multibit
Dec 2011 - Jul 2015
Deprecated Bitcoin Wallet
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gary contributed to the codebase by implementing Bitcoin URI support, including BIP 21 compliance, and command-line argument handling for the MultiBit application. They modified the main application entry point and the BitcoinURI class to facilitate this integration. Additionally, they addressed logging issues and made various code improvements, such as optimizing string operations.
bitcoin-wallet
knowm/XChange
Feb 2012 - May 2013
XChange is a Java library providing a streamlined API for interacting with 60+ Bitcoin and Altcoin exchanges providing a consistent interface for trading and accessing market data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Gary focused on building the core foundation of the XChange Java library, including initial structure and implementing of exchange providers. Contributions centered on defining core classes like `Session`, `SessionOptions`, and `ExchangeProvider`, and included integration with the Mt. Gox exchange. The user's refactoring efforts introduced key architectural components such as `Exchange`, `ExchangeFactory`, and `ExchangeService`, facilitating a more modular and extensible design for interacting with various cryptocurrency exchanges.
bitcoinjavatrading
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