Cheyenne Atapour
Senior Engineer, Smart Contracts at Aave Labs
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheyenne Atapour is a Senior Smart Contracts Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, DeFi protocols, and games—combining an MSc in Computer Science and an MBA from Oxford. He has shipped production Solidity contracts and MEV systems that supported billion-dollar TVL launches, led cross-language integrations between Rust and TypeScript stacks, and maintained end-to-end CI/CD and infrastructure for high-throughput services. As founder of Heartbleed TCG he bridged game design and blockchain engineering, shipping tooling for browser-based card interaction testing and integrating NFT asset flows into Unity. Equally comfortable in low-level research (anonymous voting and NIZK work on a Monero fork) and pragmatic product delivery, he blends formal problem-solving with fast iteration. Based in San Diego, he actively experiments across Rust, Python, C#, and Solidity and publishes working prototypes on GitHub, including decentralized exchange and probabilistic card-draw tools.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, DavisMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of OxfordUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Persian
Github Skills (22)
integrate10
swap10
backend9
dex8
decentralized-finance8
fuel8
ethereum-contract8
blockchain8
ethereum8
solidity8
smart-contracts7
dapps-development5
ecosystem4
golang3
ruby3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CheyenneAtapour/Scheduler
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Cheyenne's Scheduler
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
golangschedulerruby
CheyenneAtapour/SublimeColors
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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