Alexander Attar
Senior Software Engineer at Relay
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Attar is a Senior Software Engineer and protocol-focused engineering leader with 14 years building large-scale distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure from Infura to Optimism and Holograph. He has architected and operated production-grade backends that processed millions of on-chain transactions and secured protocol assets north of $100M, with hands-on expertise spanning Rust, Go, TypeScript, Solidity, and distributed indexing. At Holograph he rebuilt critical indexing in Rust to optimize async performance and replay handling, and has deep experience integrating smart contracts with cross-stack backend services and Gnosis Safe operations. His work has powered high-throughput marketplaces and L2 rollup systems, enabling tens of millions in trading volume and multi-chain consistency guarantees. Based in New York, he blends low-level systems tuning with strategic product and security leadership, and prefers direct email or X for contact rather than LinkedIn. An early adopter in blockchain media tooling, he also brings a music-technology background that informs pragmatic, user-focused platform design.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music and Business, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music and Business at Florida State UniversityMaster of Music - MM, Music Technology, Master of Music - MM, Music Technology at New York University
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (113)
operator10
javascript10
api10
web3js10
cli10
typescript10
json-rpc10
ethereum10
blockchain10
editor9
middleware9
hid9
http9
rest-api9
visual-studio-code9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
holographxyz/holograph-cli
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
CLI for Holograph Protocol with real-time streaming indexer and network monitor for cross-chain event processing and operator coordination
Contributions:192 reviews, 195 commits, 137 PRs in 7 months
clioperator
alexanderattar/solidity-tools
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:37 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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