Adin Schmahmann
Director And Engineering Leader at SurgeLocker
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAdin Schmahmann is a Director and engineering leader with 10 years of experience building decentralized networking and cryptographic systems, currently co‑founder at Interplanetary Shipyard driving IPFS and libp2p adoption. He is a hands‑on open-source contributor to core projects like libp2p, IPFS (kubo) and Filecoin, with tangible work on content routing, Kademlia DHT improvements, pubsub subscription handling, and backoff/performance refactors that improve resilience in production P2P stacks. His background includes serving as IPFS Tech Lead and software engineer at Protocol Labs and founding SurgeLocker to enable real‑time, cryptographically secure document collaboration—highlighting a rare combination of applied crypto and distributed systems experience. Based in Boston with an M.Eng. from MIT, he mixes research‑grade rigor with operational leadership, frequently shifting between coding, product direction, and community engagement.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
network-protocols10
exponential-backoff10
testing10
net10
distributed-systems10
ipfs10
networking10
libp2p10
net-stack10
backup10
go10
backup-strategies10
network-protocol10
distributed-system10
blockchain10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
A Kademlia DHT implementation on go-libp2p
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 73 reviews, 294 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adin made several commits focused on improving the Kademlia DHT implementation within the go-libp2p-kad-dht repository. The contributions involve refactoring the code, including making all key types loggable, modifying provider records, adding new filter options, and updating several tests. These changes indicate a focus on improving the performance and correctness of the DHT functionality, including fixes for query and refresh issues.
golangipfskademlia-dhtdhtgo-libp2p
ipfs/kubo
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
An IPFS implementation in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 505 reviews, 470 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Adin's contributions primarily revolve around the development and enhancement of the IPFS Kubo implementation in Go, specifically within the context of the "pin ls" command. Their work included modifications to the core commands related to pinning, such as refining the handling of zero values and streaming outputs in JSON format for the "pin ls" command. The user also implemented unit tests to verify the functionality of pin operations, including indirect pin traversals and pin type precedence.
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