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Top 14 Cardano Developers You Can Hire

cardano developers - Top 14 Cardano Developers You Can Hire

Cardano has rapidly evolved into one of the most innovative blockchain ecosystems, thanks to a passionate global community of developers, researchers, and builders.

This includes core protocol contributors, startup founders pushing smart contract adoption, prolific open-source developers, DeFi and NFT pioneers, and governance advocates shaping Cardano’s future. Below is a curated list of the most impactful and currently active Cardano developers driving real innovation across the ecosystem:

  1. Sebastien Guillemot
  2. Adam Dean
  3. Nicolas Arqueros
  4. Alessandro Konrad
  5. Robert Kornacki
  6. Pi Lanningham
  7. Eric Coley
  8. Blakelock Brown
  9. Dewayne Cameron
  10. Patrick Tobler
  11. Niels Mündler
  12. Andrew Westberg
  13. Kyle Johns
  14. Marek Mahut

Now, let’s delve into their remarkable journeys and contributions:

Sebastien Guillemot

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Nationality: French-Canadian

Sebastien is the CTO and co-founder of dcSpark, one of Cardano’s most prominent builder startups.

He was a lead engineer for Yoroi wallet and has spearheaded Cardano sidechain projects (like Milkomeda). As a prolific open-source contributor and blogger, Sebastien has helped establish standards and tools for Cardano developers.

Adam Dean

Nationality: British

Adam (known as “adamKDean” online) is a Cardano stake pool operator (BUFFY Pool) and a key community contributor to Cardano’s stability and governance.

He is one of the few elected CIP Editors guiding the Cardano Improvement Proposal process. Adam gained recognition for his quick actions and public communications during the 2022 testnet issues, emphasizing the importance of transparent testing. As a CIP editor and developer, he has helped review and refine Cardano CIPs, ensuring community voices are heard in Cardano’s evolution.

Nicolas Arqueros

Nicolas Arqueros - Top 14 Cardano Developers You Can Hire

Nationality: Chilean

Nico is the co-founder and CEO of dcSpark, a company building critical Cardano infrastructure (and incubator of the Milkomeda sidechain).

Previously, he served as CTO at Emurgo and even sat on the Cardano Foundation council. With his blend of business and coding expertise, Nico drives Cardano’s growth by leading dcSpark’s development of novel products and sidechains.

Alessandro Konrad

Nationality: German

Alessandro (also known as Alessandro Berry in the community) is the co-founder of SpaceBudz (Cardano’s pioneering NFT collection) and creator of the Nami Wallet.

He also operates BERRY Pool. Alessandro’s open-source libraries, like Lucid (a JavaScript SDK), have lowered barriers for Cardano web developers. He has authored Cardano Improvement Proposals (e.g. CIP-30 and CIP-68) to standardize wallet connectors and NFT metadata, earning him a Cardano Summit award for standards in 2022.

Robert Kornacki

Robert Kornacki - Top 14 Cardano Developers You Can Hire

Nationality: American

Robert is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of dcSpark.

As Emurgo’s former Head of Research & Development, he contributed to Cardano’s smart contract design (e.g. Oracle Pools research) and developer tooling. He co-created Paima Studios (focused on on-chain games) and is known for exploring formal methods in Cardano development. Robert continues to push Cardano’s technical boundaries through his work on open-source libraries and new protocols.

Pi Lanningham

You don’t scale blockchains by copying Ethereum. You scale them by doing something fundamentally different — like Cardano’s eUTxO model.

Nationality: American

Pi is the Chief Technology Officer of SundaeSwap Labs, which built Cardano’s first major decentralized exchange.

An experienced full-stack developer, Pi led SundaeSwap’s smart contract development and often shares insights on Cardano’s eUTxO design in the community. He remains an active voice in Cardano, contributing to discussions on scaling and governance while guiding SundaeSwap’s technical roadmap.

Eric Coley

Nationality: American

Eric is the co-founder and CEO of Indigo Protocol (Indigo Labs), a platform for decentralized synthetic assets on Cardano.

With 13+ years in enterprise tech, Eric has guided Indigo’s development of on-chain synthetic assets (iAssets) and Cardano’s first on-chain governance system. He also helped establish the Cardano DeFi Alliance. Eric’s focus on democratizing finance via Cardano has made Indigo one of the fastest-growing Cardano DeFi dApps.

Blakelock Brown

Blakelock Brown - Top 14 Cardano Developers You Can Hire

Nationality: American

Blake is the co-founder of JPG Store, the leading NFT marketplace on Cardano.

Under his leadership, JPG Store has enabled thousands of creators and processed millions of ADA in trades. Blake remains deeply technical – iterating on the marketplace’s smart contracts and backend for scalability. His work has greatly expanded Cardano’s NFT ecosystem, making it easy for users to mint and trade NFTs.

Dewayne Cameron

Nationality: American

Dewayne (“DC”) is the founder and CEO of Liqwid Labs, which developed Liqwid Finance, Cardano’s first lending and borrowing protocol.

He leads a global team building the open-source Plutus smart contracts for Liqwid. Dewayne also co-founded the Cardano DeFi Alliance to advance the ecosystem. As a frequent speaker on Cardano DeFi, he emphasizes open development and has contributed to research on algorithmic stablecoins (e.g. AgeUSD).

Patrick Tobler

Patrick Tobler - Top 14 Cardano Developers You Can Hire

Nationality: German

Patrick is the founder and CEO of NMKR (NFT-Maker), the largest minting platform in Cardano’s NFT space.

A Cardano community member since 2017, Patrick built NMKR to simplify blockchain product creation – from NFT collections to dApps. His platform has minted over 1 million NFTs (roughly 25% of all Cardano NFTs). Patrick is also an active educator, advocating for NFT standards and helping developers integrate Cardano via NMKR’s APIs.

Niels Mündler

Nationality: German

Niels is the co-founder and CTO of MuesliSwap, a pioneer Cardano DEX that launched in 2021 as a hybrid order-book AMM exchange.

Niels, a software engineer based in Europe, helped MuesliSwap achieve several Cardano “firsts” – first DEX, first stablecoin DEX aggregator, etc. He remains hands-on in coding new features (like their batcher and aggregator infrastructure) and ensuring the platform’s smart contracts are secure and efficient.

Andrew Westberg

Andrew Westberg - Top 14 Cardano Developers You Can Hire

Nationality: American

Andrew operates Blue Cheese Stake House pool (BCSH) and is the developer behind CNCLI – a Rust-based Cardano node utility toolkit.

CNCLI, which Andrew open-sourced, allows operators to reliably compute leader schedules and verify block propagation, and is used by most Cardano pools. He also created JorManager (for the ITN) and PoolPerks, demonstrating a knack for building tools that improve Cardano’s infrastructure. Andrew shares his expertise via his “NerdOut” YouTube series, educating the community on Cardano’s tech.

Kyle Johns

Nationality: American

Kyle is the lead developer of CardanoSharp, an open-source Cardano SDK for the .NET platform.

He founded SHARP Pool and, driven by the lack of C# libraries for Cardano, created CardanoSharp to let developers build Cardano apps in C# and .NET environments. CardanoSharp (wallet key generation, transaction building, etc.) is used in various .NET projects and smart contract frameworks. Kyle also contributes to training materials through GimbaLabs, helping to onboard more Cardano developers with C# backgrounds.

Marek Mahut

Nationality: Slovak

Marek is the founder and CEO of Blockfrost, a popular Cardano API-as-a-service platform.

Blockfrost simplifies how developers interact with Cardano by offering accessible REST APIs and SDKs. Marek’s team launched Blockfrost in 2020, and it quickly became a go-to solution for dApp developers (with integrations in wallets, explorers, and mobile apps). An active open-source contributor, Marek has also worked on Cardano’s Rust tooling and was recognized with an IOG investment to further decentralize Blockfrost’s infrastructure.

Wrap Up

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