From Backend Developer to Blockchain Architect
Thorsten joined our September 2023 cohort with six years of traditional web development experience. He spent the first three months struggling with Solidity syntax and smart contract patterns that felt completely foreign.
By early 2024, he'd deployed his first production contract for a music licensing platform. Not perfect — he'll tell you about the gas optimization issues he fixed in version 2. But it worked and solved an actual business problem.
Currently leading blockchain infrastructure at a content syndication company. His team handles roughly 45,000 daily transactions across three networks. He still messages our technical channel occasionally when consensus mechanisms get weird.