Jagdeep Sidhu
Management at Self-employed
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJagdeep Sidhu is a blockchain-focused engineering leader with 12+ years of experience, currently leading Syscoin development and management at SYS Labs while maintaining long-standing core contributions to the Syscoin repository. He combines protocol-level research (consensus, game theory, PoW security assumptions) with hands-on engineering across UTXO and EVM architectures, dual-chain integration, and zk-based cross-chain security. His work spans scaling payments, Layer 1 pruned data availability for rollups (PoDA), privacy-preserving tech, MPC, and on-chain digital identity aligned with W3C DID. A practical open-source contributor, he has implemented Syscoin support in public projects like BATM and automated Syscoin builds in Azure quickstart templates, reflecting both product and DevOps fluency. Based in Canada and trained at BCIT, he uniquely blends deep protocol research with pragmatic system integration aimed at compliant, censorship-resistant digital economies.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at British Columbia Institute of Technology / BCIT
English, Punjabi, Hindi, French
Github Skills (16)
crypto10
cryptocurrency10
javas10
bitcoin10
bash10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrencies10
back-end-development10
java10
ubuntu10
apidoc9
automation9
automations9
api9
devops8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
GENERALBYTESCOM/batm_public
May 2018 - Jun 2018
BATM Public Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Jagdeep primarily focused on adding support for the Syscoin cryptocurrency within the BATM public repository. This involved implementing a Syscoin extension, including creating a Syscoin wallet using syscoind and a rate source via Coinmarketcap. The user also updated the Coinmarketcap API to v2, integrated CAD support and performed some indent fixes in the code.
public-repository
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Jagdeep primarily focused on setting up and configuring a Syscoin environment within an Ubuntu environment. Their commits involve modifying a `build_syscoin.sh` script to include commands for updating the OS, installing prerequisites, and running the syscoind daemon. The changes include adding `sudo` commands, restarting the service, and updating the operating system before building the software. These changes are focused on configuring the environment for running syscoin.
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