Anvar Kiekbaev is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in backend development, infrastructure automation, and distributed systems. He has built high-availability, fault-tolerant services at scale—designing a ZIO/Akka-based chatbot serving 100k+ users and 30k daily active users—and automated CI/CD for containerized deployments on GKE. His blockchain work includes contributions to the prominent Waves reference node in Scala, implementing core features like Merkle trees, block rewards, and protocol upgrades. Comfortable across JVM and functional ecosystems, he blends systems-level rigor with pragmatic automation and has hands-on experience integrating payments, messaging channels, and analytics tooling. Based in Batumi, Georgia, he pairs an operator’s background in Linux with a deep interest in functional programming and protocol design.
⛓️ Reference Waves Blockchain Node (client) implementation on Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:119 commits, 130 PRs, 433 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Anvar primarily contributed to the Waves blockchain node implementation. Their work focused on core functionality, including improvements to the peer database, more precise error messages for smart contract scripts, and smart asset features in transactions like `SetAssetScriptTransaction`. The user was also involved in improving the network startup process by modifying peer connections and implementing the block version 5.
Contributions:4 releases, 174 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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