Irina Guberman
Founding Engineer at Keyboard Expressions
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIrina Guberman is a principal-level systems engineer and founding engineer with 25+ years building ultra-low-latency, high-throughput infrastructure across blockchain, IoT security, gaming, and fintech. She combines deep hands-on expertise in Rust, C/C++, Erlang/OTP and advanced networking (TCP, QUIC, kernel bypass, eBPF/AF_XDP) with production experience in distributed coordination, consensus, and fault-tolerant systems. Currently leading April Gate, a DePIN for hardware-attested pharmaceutical cold-chain verification that fuses zero-knowledge proofs, TPM-backed attestation, and a chain-agnostic verification core settled on Solana. Her background includes architecting Neon Labs’ Solana data pipeline and pioneering zero-trust IoT overlays at Xaptum, where her work produced patents and embedded TPM integrations—evidence of a recurring theme: secure, decentralized systems built for adversarial environments. Known for pragmatic deep-dives into performance (benchmarking Seastar/Glommio, DPDK, and storage architectures) she repeatedly ships complete solutions from transport layer to consensus. Based in Chicago, she blends academic rigor in computer engineering with an unusual second life as a classically trained pianist, reflecting methodical attention to craft and nuance.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Music Education (Piano), BA, Music Education (Piano) at Lviv College of Music EducationBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago
Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (89)
realtime10
udp10
elixir10
ietf9
effort9
networking9
api-server9
phoenix-framework9
quic9
data-mapping8
openwrt8
driver8
libsodium8
java8
websocket7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
iguberman/xaptum_client
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:180 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
xaptum/xaptum-tpm-erlang
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:101 commits, 6 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 month
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