Ahmed Iqbal
Software Engineer at Flashnet
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Iqbal is a software engineer with 6 years of experience and 2+ years focused on building core Layer 1 blockchain protocols, notably contributing backend features to the EVM-compatible Shardeum autoscaling blockchain. He has led development of Ethereum-compatible JSON-RPC APIs and node synchronization protocols that improve reliability, scalability, and network health while enabling seamless wallet and dApp integrations. Ahmed has a track record of diagnosing and resolving critical production incidents and shipping backend enhancements with zero downtime. His contributions include practical code quality work and performance-minded refactors, plus adding nuanced RPC features like the "earliest" block tag. Based in Plano, Texas, he combines strong academic foundations from UT Dallas (BS Computer Science, 3.67) with hands-on open-source impact in live decentralized networks. He brings a pragmatic systems mindset to protocol design, balancing developer ergonomics with operational robustness.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.67, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.67 at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (11)
evm10
typescript10
typescripts10
back-end-development10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
ethereum9
api8
apim8
api-design8
sharding8
Programming languages (5)
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:35 reviews, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the Shardeum blockchain repository by modifying and adding core backend functionalities. Their work included implementing new endpoints, modifying receipt structures, and adding support for features like the "earliest" block tag. The user also made optimizations by removing unnecessary endpoints and refactoring code for efficiency. Furthermore, they addressed code quality by changing `let` to `const` and removing unused variables.
blockchaindappethereumevmevm-blockchain
xpulsor/My-C-code
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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