Esad Akar
Technical Lead at Swarm
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolEsad Akar is a Technical Lead with 10 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and cloud microservices, currently leading engineering for the Bee client in the Swarm decentralized storage network. He combines low-level expertise in SIMD optimization and network programming with practical architecture skills—designing storage layers with LevelDB, libp2p-based P2P protocols, and cross-chain smart-contract bridges for Ethereum testnets and mainnets. A former founder of an automated crypto trading platform, he brings hands-on experience in scalable microservice design, real-time WebSocket systems, and CI/CD for production-grade distributed services. At Citrix he improved critical cloud service latency dramatically and authored two patents on directory traversal and dynamic bloom filters, underscoring a knack for inventive, systems-level optimizations. Esad is an active open-source contributor to the widely used ethersphere/bee project, focusing on core networking, pushsync/retrieval components, and performance instrumentation. Based in Istanbul, he blends deep systems programming with product-focused leadership and technical recruiting experience.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University
Github Skills (6)
go10
swarm10
kademlia10
testing9
ethereum7
golang7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethersphere/bee
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 1402 reviews, 354 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Esad's commits primarily involve implementing, debugging, and testing features related to the Swarm network's core functionalities. They addressed issues in the Kademlia implementation, focusing on peer inconsistencies and neighborhood depth. The user also contributed to the pushsync and retrieval components, including optimization, and the implementation of features like skip lists and more precise timestamping for measuring performance. Furthermore, they added instrumentation for various aspects like metrics and metrics.
golangpublishingswarmbeepermissionless
ethersphere/beekeeper-config
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
Beekeeper Configuration
Contributions:3 reviews, 13 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 9 months
ansiblebeekeeper
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