Adin Schmahmann
Director And Engineering Leader at Protocol Labs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAdin Schmahmann is a director and engineering leader with a decade of experience building decentralized, resilient web infrastructure using IPFS, libp2p, and related peer-to-peer technologies. As co-founder and Director at Interplanetary Shipyard and former Go IPFS Tech Lead at Protocol Labs, he blends strategic leadership with hands-on Go development, shipping core implementations like kubo and contributions to libp2p pubsub and Kademlia DHTs. His work focuses on cryptography-backed, performant content routing and pubsub systems that make data sharing safer, faster, and more reliable at internet scale. Adin also founded SurgeLocker to tackle secure, real-time collaborative document workflows, showing a long-standing interest in usable cryptographic systems. Based in Boston and trained at MIT, he pairs deep distributed-systems expertise with product judgment and a track record of improving robustness across flagship open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hebrew
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Github Skills (33)
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networking10
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backup-strategies10
network-protocol10
blockchain10
network10
pubsub10
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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