Mohab Metwally
Chief Technology Officer at finai solutions
Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolMohab Metwally is a CTO and founder with 11 years of software engineering experience, specializing in blockchain research, cryptography, and AI-driven systems. He led the first implementation of the Ouroboros Crypsinous protocol for DarkFi, contributing consensus fixes, leader election logic, and a VRF module that underpin anonymous, uncensored DeFi primitives. Comfortable spanning research and production, he has built mission planning libraries, authored a machine learning book, and taught ML while shipping C++ systems and robotics/vision projects. Currently leading technology at FunHi and founding Finai Solutions, he combines product leadership with hands-on backend and crypto engineering. Based in Egypt, Mohab uniquely blends deep theoretical knowledge (ZK, MPC, consensus) with practical implementations that have real-world privacy and decentralization impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics at Benha UniversityBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Artificial Intelligence at University of London
English, Kurdish, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
algorithm10
consensus10
rust10
cryptography10
blockchain10
decentralized-finance9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
darkrenaissance/darkfi
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Anonymous. Uncensored. Sovereign.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cryptography Specialist
Back-end Developer & Cryptography SpecialistContributions:307 commits, 5 PRs, 213 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mohab contributed to the core functionality of a decentralized finance (DeFi) project, specifically focusing on implementing a leader election mechanism and on the incorporation of verifiable random functions (VRFs) within a blockchain context. Their work included modifications to node behavior within a Streamlet protocol, including a proposal for block broadcasting that addressed missing signatures, suggesting an involvement in the consensus layer. The user also developed and integrated a Verifiable Random Function (VRF) module.
ethereumweb3decentralizednftzero-knowledge
ertosns/scrape
Dec 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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