Paweł Szałachowski
Research Engineer at Chainlink Labs
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Szałachowski is a research engineer with 11 years of experience building and analyzing secure networked systems, currently advancing R&D at Chainlink Labs. He combines a strong academic pedigree (PhD-level work and publications at top systems and security venues) with industry experience at Google, ETH Zurich, and SUTD, focusing on blockchains, DeFi, trust infrastructures, and Internet security. Paweł has hands-on systems experience—from contributing to the SCION Internet Architecture repository and migrating router code to writing tooling scripts—to shipping secure backend components. Known for bridging deep research insights with practical engineering, he repeatedly turns complex security and network problems into auditable, production-ready solutions. Based in Poland, he brings a persistent interest in decentralized trust models alongside a track record of influential publications.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology
Github Skills (3)
perl10
networking9
system-programming9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scionproto/scion
Jul 2014 - May 2017
SCION Internet Architecture
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:674 commits, 53 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Paweł added a documentation directory and implemented several Perl scripts to address potential problems and fix BibTeX entries. The user then migrated router code from SVN and made minor changes in other classes. In addition, the user has made improvements to the router code and comments.
architecturescioninternet
smartcontractkit/tdh2
May 2023 - Feb 2025
An implementation of the TDH2 protocol by Shoup & Gennaro (paper link https://www.shoup.net/papers/thresh1.pdf)
Contributions:26 reviews, 26 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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