Early Days of Ethereum

Preserving the history and stories of the people who built Ethereum.

Paweł Bylica ("chfast")

Software engineer, C++ team and VM

(Nov 2014 to Jun 2025)

DEVCON0 self-introduction

Paweł Bylica DEVCON0 introduction

Paweł started working on the C++ JIT VM with Artur Zawłocki in Nov 2014. They were both working for Imapp sp. z o.o. in Warsaw. Ethereum DEV UG had signed a contract with imapp for this work, which was intended to be integrated into Geth as well as cpp-ethereum.

When the C++ work was being defunded, Gavin and others were leaving to form ethcore (later Parity) and the imapp contract was terminated. This was around the time of DEVCON1. Paweł continued to work for imapp, but not on Ethereum for a while. The contract was renewed around February 2016 at the same time that Bob Summerwill and Greg Colvin were also hired to backfill the C++ development team.

In November 2016, Paweł left imapp and signed a contract directly with the Ethereum Foundation and continued working there until June 2025. He worked as part of the Ipsilon team on various VM projects, including evmc, evmone and EVM Object Format.

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