Esad Atik
Co-Founder & CTO at Chainway Labs
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolEsad Atik is a Co-Founder and CTO with a decade of hands-on experience building robotics, trading and infrastructure systems from Istanbul. He has led backend and ROS development for warehouse robots at Set Robotics, built production servers that coordinate fleets and SAP integration, and later implemented market-making, on-chain arbitrage and MEV automation as a quantitative developer at BiLira. As CTO of Chainway Labs he combines robotics and crypto tooling perspectives to ship pragmatic, high-throughput systems. He also maintains IT operations and web platforms for HanTech, reflecting a full-stack, operational mindset beyond pure engineering. A recent Boğaziçi University computer engineering student with early entrepreneurship roots, he blends startup grit with low-level systems and algo-trading expertise.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Graduate at Kabataş Erkek LisesiBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, German, Turkish, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
modular10
evm10
metadata10
ethereum10
blockchain10
distributed-systems9
p2p9
rust9
risc8
risc-v8
secp256k18
sdk8
virtual-machine8
bitcoin8
base588
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chainwayxyz/citrea
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Citrea, Bitcoin's First ZK Rollup 🍊🍋
Contributions:1483 reviews, 849 PRs, 1343 pushes in 1 year
eyusufatik/sovereign-sdk
Aug 2023 - Jun 2024
A framework for building seamlessly scalable and interoperable rollups that can run on any blockchain
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
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