Hussein Ait-lahcen
Software Engineer at Block 6.282e+10
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolHussein Ait-lahcen is a deterministic software engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building robust, security-minded back-end systems and open-source software. A passionate functional programmer and Haskell specialist, he favors clean, total functional designs to reduce complexity and increase correctness. His contributions to a trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol demonstrate real-world crypto and blockchain expertise, including EVM/IBC integration and smart-contract interactions. He brings deep experience in implementing efficient, atomic operations and reliable relay/forwarding mechanics for censorship-resistant decentralized finance. Trained as an engineer in France (Université Paris Sud) with an early DUT in computer science, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical, production-facing development. Notoriously focused on determinism, he seeks elegant solutions that are auditable and maintainable across distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique at Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)DUT, Informatique, Admis, DUT, Informatique, Admis at Université d'Orléans
Arabic, English
Github Skills (5)
evm10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
virtual-machine10
blockchain10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
unionlabs/union
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:197 reviews, 187 PRs, 407 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hussein's commits focused on implementing core functionality for a zero-knowledge bridging protocol, specifically related to the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) and IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) technologies. Contributions involve enhancements to events within IBC channel communications, the addition of functionality for processing relay and forwarding packets, and improvements to the efficiency and stability of atomic operations. The user interacted with smart contracts written in Solidity.
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hussein-aitlahcen/freeinmonads
Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:43 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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