Nadir Akhtar
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNadir Akhtar is a Staff Smart Contract Security Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience securing blockchain systems. A UC Berkeley CS graduate, he combines curiosity about distributed systems and game theory with a deep focus on blockchain security. He currently builds and breaks smart contracts at Eigen Labs to strengthen Layer 1/2 security and DeFi ecosystems. During his tenure at Coinbase, he rose to Senior Blockchain Security Engineer and Tech Lead for the Digital Asset and Protocol Security team, mentored a dozen junior auditors, and helped secure Base and other on-chain infrastructure, delivering major cost savings on external audits. An active educator, he led Blockchain at Berkeley's education initiatives and taught the Blockchain Fundamentals course, while his background also includes Quantstamp research engineering and a NASA NITARP internship, reflecting a hands-on, cross-disciplinary approach to security.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
financial9
yellow9
blockchain9
ledger8
xrp8
fintech8
ethereum8
cryptocurrency8
verifiable-credentials8
diem7
specification7
solidity6
internet5
react3
snmp3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nadir-akhtar/ethereal-2017
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
react
rustielin/Tutor-Chat
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 months
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