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Christian Reitwießner

Christian Reitwießner ("chriseth")

(Oct 2014 to ~2023?)

DEVCON0 self-introduction

Christian Reitwießner DEVCON0 introduction

Christian Reitwießner was the lead developer of Solidity, Ethereum's primary smart contract programming language, which he designed alongside Gavin Wood. He joined the Ethereum Foundation in October 2014 and was based in the Berlin ETHDEV office, where he worked for nearly a decade.

Fabian Vogelsteller, who sat in the same Berlin office building the Mist browser and web3.js, described working closely with him:

"I talked and worked with Christian a lot who worked on Solidity, was also in the Berlin office." — Fabian Vogelsteller (Episode 12)

At DEVCON3 in Cancún (November 2017), Christian was introduced alongside Vitalik Buterin, Peter Szilagyi, Fabian Vogelsteller, and Viktor Tron as one of the Ethereum team leads.

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