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Today we celebrate Hennadii Stepanov's 4 year anniversary as a Bitcoin Core engineer at Brink 🎉

From a simple fixup because of an old laptop, to one of the most prolific contributors to Bitcoin Core today...

https://brink.dev/blog/2025/03/28/hebastos-brink-epoch/

Whether that is the build system, operating system compatibility, the GUI, or language translations, hebasto’s efforts have been aimed at making Bitcoin secure, accessible, and user-friendly.

Hebasto led a project to migrate the build system to a modern, CMake-based one, enhancing efficiency and paving the way for future development. The migration to CMake took nearly 300 pull requests, a dozen people, and two years of review and testing.

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/06/#bitcoin-core-30454

Since his initial contribution, hebasto has 1800+ (!) commits to his name.

But it isn't just his own work...in the last year alone hebasto also provided nearly 1,700 review comments.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors

Brink and the Bitcoin community are lucky to have hebasto on our team.

Thank you for your open source #Bitcoin contributions, Hennadii 🚀