Saeed Dadkhah is a Senior Rust Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance blockchain and systems software, currently contributing to Fuel Labs from Istanbul. He has a strong background in C++, Qt and Rust, and authored key tools at Zilliqa including zilliqa-rs, a Scilla parser and a hardhat-scilla-plugin, evidencing deep practical expertise in smart contract toolchains. His open-source work on the Zilliqa core — especially integrating EVM-related code and tests — highlights a focus on interop and back-end protocol engineering for high-throughput blockchains. Saeed blends hands-on implementation skills with leadership experience from team lead roles, consistently moving projects from prototype parsing and tooling into production-ready integrations. He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology and often operates at the intersection of low-level systems and developer tooling.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology
Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:190 reviews, 90 commits, 209 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Saeed primarily contributed to the back-end logic, specifically modifying the representation of data fields in JSON responses. They also worked on moving and integrating EVM-related code and tests into the main repository, indicating a focus on the Ethereum Virtual Machine integration within the Zilliqa blockchain. The user's contributions included changes to improve the functionality and integration with the existing system. The user was also involved in adding tests related to the EVM.
Contributions:2 releases, 16 reviews, 17 commits in 2 months
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