Abdul Shaik
Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Open Source) at Liberdus
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAbdul Shaik is a software engineer and AI security researcher with five years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, blockchains, and security tooling across Python, TypeScript, Rust, and C++. He has driven production launches and core features for Shardeum—contributing to an autoscaling, sharded EVM Layer-1 that scaled testnets to tens of millions of transactions—and continues to architect cross-chain payment and DAO infrastructure at Liberdus. His work spans consensus, gossip protocols, cryptographic identity/signature verification, and DevSecOps, with measurable wins like major reductions in sync latency, memory usage, and transaction finality times. In research roles at Georgia Tech and BITS Pilani he published on AI-based market intelligence and explored federated learning and UX/network security on low-cost Android devices, bringing privacy-forward ML thinking to constrained environments. A US citizen based in Fremont, he actively contributes to open-source projects (Shardeum, Shardus, Cosmos, Farcaster) and seeks collaborations on meaningful, product-focused problems. Notably, he combines hands-on systems optimization with adversarial AI research aimed at securing multi-agent GenAI systems in operational settings.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science at DPS - MIS, Doha Qatar
English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic
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Github Skills (18)
evm10
typescript10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
typescripts10
debug9
debugging9
sharding9
nodejs8
performance-monitoring8
databases7
ethereum7
database7
firebase6
android6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shardeum/shardeum
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Shardeum is an EVM based autoscaling blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 18 PRs, 21 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Abdul primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Shardeum blockchain project. They modified core functionalities, including adjusting gas limits and implementing a blocked-at feature for debugging and performance monitoring. The user also worked on code formatting and configuration, and made changes to account serialization. These contributions suggest a focus on improving stability, debugging capabilities, and data handling within the blockchain's operational environment.
blockchaindappethereumevmevm-blockchain
abdulazeem-tk4vr/LIVEMart
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Grocery Shop eCommerce Mobile Application
Contributions:204 commits, 2 PRs, 161 pushes in 1 month
groceryecommercemobile-applicationfirebaseshopping-cart
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