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Morgan Bazalgette Person direct

Status: Active Updated: 2026-02-18 Sessions: 1 Facts: 31

Morgan Bazalgette

Type: person Last Updated: 2026-02-18 Status: Active Research Sessions: 1

Executive Summary

Morgan Bazalgette (GitHub: thehowl) is a developer based in Turin, Italy, and a core contributor to Gno.land/gnolang. With 318 PRs and 302 commits to the gnolang organization (active since February 2023), Morgan is one of the most prolific gnolang contributors. Key work areas include the GnoVM runtime, transpiler, standard library, and the SOGNO proposal for a major refactor of reflect and garbage collection. Before gnolang, Morgan created and maintained Ripple, a private osu! game server. Morgan also works on tomino, a code-generated amino replacement for multi-language encoding.

Facts

Current Role - Gno.land / gnolang

  • Core developer at gnolang — Source: https://github.com/thehowl (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Company listed as @gnolang on GitHub — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • 318 PRs to gnolang organization — Source: GitHub API search (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • 302 commits to gnolang repositories — Source: GitHub API search (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • PR volume by year: 67 (2023), 137 (2024), 102 (2025), 12 (2026 so far) — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • First gnolang PR: "feat(website): add dark theme" on 2023-02-13 — Source: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/515 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Most recent activity: VM fixes for pointer dereferences and map readonly taints (2026-02-18) — Source: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/5167 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Key gnolang Work Areas

  • GnoVM runtime: Map readonly taints, pointer dereferences in arrays, array length correctness — Source: GitHub PRs (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Transpiler: "feat(transpiler): transpile gno standard libraries" (PR #1695) — Source: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/1695 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • SOGNO proposal: Major refactor proposal for reflect + garbage collection — Source: https://github.com/gnolang/hackerspace/pull/44 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Database cleanup: Removed cleveldb, fsdb and rocksdb (PR #1714) — Source: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/1714 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Genesis/chain: Pass genesis file as flag (PR #1972) — Source: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/1972 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • CLI: Changed verbose flags to -v (PR #1716) — Source: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/1716 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • tomino: Code-generated amino replacement for multi-language encoders — Source: https://github.com/thehowl/tomino (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • gnols: Implementation of Language Server Protocol for Gno — Source: https://github.com/thehowl/gnols (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • guide: Onboarding knowledge at AiB/NT (All in Bits / NewTendermint) — Source: https://github.com/thehowl/guide (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Previous Work - osu! / Ripple

  • Created and maintained Ripple (ripple.moe), a private osu! game server — Source: https://ripple.moe/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Member of the osuripple GitHub organization — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Built Discord API libraries, scoring tools, and game server infrastructure — Source: web search (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Technical Profile

  • Primary language: Go — Source: GitHub repos (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Other languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, C# — Source: GitHub repos (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Notable tools: diffy (4 stars, upload diffs), cford32 (Crockford base32 encoding) — Source: GitHub (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Blog: https://howl.moe/ with technical posts on Go, S3 filesystems, data manipulation — Source: https://howl.moe/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Online Presence

  • GitHub: github.com/thehowl (22 public repos, 141 followers, 71 following) — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • GitHub account created: 2013-06-12 — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Website: https://howl.moe/ — Source: GitHub profile (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Email: git@howl.moe — Source: GitHub commit metadata (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Location: Turin, Italy — Source: GitHub profile (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Connections

  • Guilhem Fanton (gfanton): Mutual follow, both gnolang core team — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Manfred Touron (moul): gnolang colleague — Source: GitHub (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • All in Bits (AiB): Employer context visible in guide repo — Source: https://github.com/thehowl/guide (confidence: MEDIUM) (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Career Timeline

| Period | Role | Organization | |--------|------|-------------| | ~2015-2022 | Creator/Maintainer | Ripple (osu! private server) | | 2023-02 to present | Core Developer (GnoVM, transpiler, stdlib) | Gno.land / gnolang |

GitHub Organization Memberships

  • gnolang — Gno blockchain (active, core team) — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • osuripple — osu! private server — Source: GitHub API (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Related Entities

  • Guilhem Fanton — gnolang colleague, mutual follow (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Manfred Touron — gnolang colleague (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Jae Kwon — Gno.land founder (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • Berty Technologies — Related through gnolang ecosystem (discovered: 2026-02-18)
  • All in Bits — Employer/affiliate (discovered: 2026-02-18)
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