Farhad Shabani
Senior Software Engineer at Succinct
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolFarhad Shabani is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with five years of focused Rust development building privacy-preserving and interoperable decentralized systems. He led the Rust implementation of the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol and architected shielded, UTXO-style clearing and payment flows using Groth16 ZK proofs and Pedersen commitments. Farhad brings a security-first mindset and hands-on experience integrating IBC across L1s, L2s, and rollups, plus production launches bridging Solana and Algorand. He thrives in open-source ecosystems—contributing across Cosmos, Solana, and rollup projects—and pairs deep cryptography work with practical, audited mainnet deployments. His background in finance and engineering gives him a rare blend of protocol design, risk-aware product delivery, and systems optimization.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business Administration and Management General, Master's degree Business Administration and Management General at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
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Github Skills (36)
ecosystem10
tendermint10
cosmos10
interchain10
blockchain10
rust10
cairo9
starknet9
ethereum9
communication-protocol9
distributed-ledger9
relayer9
protobuf9
cosmos-sdk7
golang7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
informalsystems/sovereign-sdk
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
A framework for building seamlessly scalable and interoperable rollups that can run on any blockchain
Contributions:14 reviews, 7 PRs, 60 pushes in 4 months
informalsystems/ibc-rs
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Rust implementation of the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol.
Contributions:11 releases, 773 reviews, 11 commits in 29 days
rustblockchaincommunicationinteribc
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