Inal Kardan
Developer Advocate
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolInal Kardan is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building GameFi and blockchain ecosystems, currently serving as Director of Gaming at TON Foundation. He designed and executed the strategy that made TON the #1 blockchain for GameFi in 2024, shipped core SDKs and developer tooling, and authored the playbook for gaming products within the Telegram ecosystem. A serial founder and former CTO, Inal has launched high‑growth projects (including a top-ranked Waves Ducks GameFi with 200k+ users in nine months) and co-founded Meta0 to solve cross‑chain interoperability for games. He blends hands‑on engineering, developer advocacy, and VC experience (TON Ventures) to drive adoption, partnerships, and onboarding pipelines for teams and Mini Apps. Known for turning complex blockchain primitives into usable SDKs and onboarding flows, he thrives at the intersection of product, dev tools, and community growth.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Digital Entertainment & Game engineering, Exchange Student Digital Entertainment & Game engineering at Tongmyong University of Information TechnologyMaster's degree Tech entrepreneurship and acceleration of IT startups, Master's degree Tech entrepreneurship and acceleration of IT startups at State University of Management (SUM)
English, Korean, kabardian, Russian
Stackoverflow
492reputation
41kreached
12answers
10questions
Github Skills (78)
crypto-wallet10
abi10
ton10
smart-contracts10
browser-extension10
ride10
webservice10
cryptography10
blockchain10
decentralized-applications10
node-application9
api9
scala9
compiler8
cryptocurrencies8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Waves-Association/grants-program
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Waves Grants is a grant program introduced by the Waves Association for individual blockchain developers, teams and start-ups willing and able to implement ideas that serve the Waves ecosystem’s interests
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
blockchain
KardanovIR/waves-book
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:74 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 8 months
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