Essam Hassan
Head Of Engineering at Lightshift
Switzerland
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Top SchoolEssam Hassan is a Head of Engineering based in Switzerland with 11 years building high-performance distributed systems, search engines, and web3 infrastructure. He combines deep systems programming experience from Google search and Android infrastructure with hands-on blockchain work at Chainlink Labs, where he led reliability and low-latency oracle ingestion efforts and improved EVM throughput up to 6x. At Lightshift he now drives technical strategy and incubates protocol-level innovations across decentralized storage, computation, and digital ownership while mentoring founding engineering teams. He has a track record of cost and latency optimizations at scale—from improving Search Retrieval Engine performance to scaling Instabug to hundreds of millions of devices. An active contributor to Chainlink’s core node logging and observability improvements, he blends pragmatic operational focus with protocol design instincts.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Cairo University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (6)
logging10
go10
develop9
chainlink8
golang8
blockchain8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:330 reviews, 114 commits, 164 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Essam primarily focused on modifying and improving the core logging functionality within the Chainlink project. Their contributions involved renaming and adding the current Chainlink version to the root and test loggers. They also merged the "develop" branch into a feature branch related to adding the version to the logger, indicating collaboration and integration of updates. These changes suggest a focus on improving the system's internal monitoring and debugging capabilities.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
essamhassan/kubernetes
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 month
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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