# Member request

Hello everyone, I'm Branislav Kontur. I've been part of Parity since July 2022, where I began my journey as a member of both the Bridges team (now Bridges+XCM) and the System parachain team.

My primary goal was the development of the BridgeHub parachain runtimes, which facilitates message transfers between various global consensus chains (substrate), such as Rococo<>Westend and Polkadot<>Kusama.

I would like to join Polkadot's technical fellowship as a 1st dan member.

Github: https://github.com/bkontur
Polkadot address: 1HFq3DbX4tqanTLAx2CAToWnHXg6LRLMzSD4JzYCzCQpw5E

# Contributions
Here are some of my notable code contributions.

**polkadot-sdk** repo: ([all my PRs](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abkontur+is%3Aclosed))

- Add bridging and asset transfer capabilities for AssetHub and BridgeHub runtimes for Rococo/Wococo: [[1]](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1215), [[2]](https://github.com/paritytech/cumulus/pull/2111)
- [Add bridging and asset transfer capabilities for AssetHub and BridgeHub runtimes on Rococo/Westend](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1967)
- [Ensure XCM versions over bridge (on sending chains)](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2481)
- [`#[pallet::composite_enum]` improved variant count handling + removed `pallet_balances`'s `MaxHolds` config](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2657)
- [Enhancements for `NetworkExportTable` and `xcm-builder`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1848)
- [Adjust XCM benchmarks (teleport_assets/reserve_transfer_assets) not relying on ED](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3464)
- [`pallet_xcm` migration to XCMv4 + added try-state to the pallet_xcm](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3228)
- [Remove `xcm::v3` from `assets-common`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4037)

**parity-bridges-common** repo: ([all my PRs](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-bridges-common/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abkontur+is%3Aclosed))
- [Rococo<>Wococo bridge relay integration](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-bridges-common/pull/1565)
- [Rococo<>Westend bridge relay integration](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-bridges-common/pull/2647)
- [Improved `ExportXcm::validate` implementation for BridgeHubs](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-bridges-common/pull/2727)

**polkadot-fellows** repo: ([all my PRs](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abkontur+is%3Aclosed))
- Preparing prerequisites for a successful 1.2.0 release - see [issue](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/issues/140), which includes:
- Bumping fellows repo to: [[polkadot-sdk@1.5]](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/137), [[polkadot-sdk@1.6]](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/159), [[polkadot-sdk@1.7]](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/187)
- [Regenerating weights](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/223)
- Fixing and backporting patches for `polkadot-sdk`
- [Fixing CI](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/189)
- Other improvements and nits: [[1]](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/45), [[2]](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/154)

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*For more contributions and activity, please check my [GitHub profile](https://github.com/bkontur)'s contributions.*