Alaa Z
Executive Director at Kasbah Labs L.L.C-FZ
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAlaa Z is an executive technology leader and technical architect with eight years of engineering experience and a six-year focus on building scalable distributed systems. Based in Dubai, he specializes in high-performance Rust backends and TypeScript-driven applications, with deep involvement in Solana and web3 tooling. He led architecture for HyperspaceAI, designing an off-chain wasm zkVM, sharded L1 consensus and developer-focused devtools, and now directs Dubai-based blockchain engineering at Kasbah Labs. As a founder of a digital studio and a former lead architect on real-time and multiplayer systems, he blends product-facing delivery with low-level systems expertise. His background spans theoretical physics to engineering degrees and hands-on hobbyist roots (oldest code dating to 2012), reflecting a rare mix of formal rigor and practical iteration. He’s known among peers as a “Solana dweeb” who translates cryptographic and performance-first designs into production-ready platforms.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Université Hassan IIComputer Science, Computer Science at 1337 Coding SchoolEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Ecole Marocaine des Sciences de l'ingénieur
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AlaaZorkane/time
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
A Brief History of Mankind - School project @ EMSI
Contributions:5 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
briefpythonldaschool-project
AlaaZorkane/next-typescript-tailwind
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Template to get you started in a dev environment with next/typescript/tailwind
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
dev-environmenttailwindtypescriptnextjsreact
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