Babak Farhang
Principal Engineer at TimeChain, LLC
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolBabak Farhang is a Principal Engineer based in Cupertino with nearly a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and leading engineering teams. He designs and ships pragmatic cryptographic and ledger-backed services—most recently architecting the crums.io witness service and compact hash-proof data structures for tamper-evident receipts and "tar ball of proofs" exports. His background spans platform and cloud services at Zynga, Big Data backends at Quantifind, and large-scale SaaS architecture at McAfee, reflecting a strong blend of systems design and operational delivery. A former co-founder of a portable Linux distribution, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and low-level systems fluency to distributed, audit-focused engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Cornell University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
generics6
comparable6
pdf-generation6
http-server6
querystring6
json-simple6
properties-file6
pdf6
java6
json6
pretty-print6
editing5
pdf-files5
lgpl5
pdfbox4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
crums-io/io-util
Jul 2018 - Mar 2025
I/O primitives for creating simple data stores.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 PR, 94 pushes in 6 years 9 months
primitivesdatabasestores
crums-io/stowkwik
Sep 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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