Sajida Zouarhi
Chief Product Officer at Optimum
Bulgaria
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Top SchoolSajida Zouarhi is a seasoned product and blockchain leader with 11 years of experience building protocol-level and developer-facing products across Ethereum, Tezos, and enterprise blockchain stacks. Currently Chief Product Officer at Optimum after rapidly moving from Head of Product, she previously led technical product efforts at Blocknative and ConsenSys where she shepherded Besu through the Merge and co-authored the on-chain gas standard RIP-7993. Her background blends deep research and engineering (ECE and PhD studies) with hands-on cryptography and privacy-by-design work on projects like HellHound and health-focused decentralized systems. Known for translating complex protocol and cryptographic trade-offs into product strategy, she also co-founded Blockfest to boost blockchain education and community engagement. Based in Bulgaria, Sajida mixes executive strategy with technical authorship and a track record of driving standardization in the Web3 stack.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityEngineering program in China Health & Technology, Engineering program in China Health & Technology at Beijing University of Technology - 北京工业大学Engineer's degree Software computing Defense Projects Healthcare and Technology, Engineer's degree Software computing Defense Projects Healthcare and Technology at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.PhD Student in Computer Science Informatique et Réseaux, PhD Student in Computer Science Informatique et Réseaux at Université Grenoble AlpesMed School - biophysics and biochemistry anatomy ethics histology, Med School - biophysics and biochemistry anatomy ethics histology at Université Paris CitéA-level in Science (Baccalauréat scientifique), A-level in Science (Baccalauréat scientifique) at Lycée Michelet - Vanves
English, arabe (marocain), Chinese, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
https-client10
java10
pow10
ethereum10
blockchain10
p2p9
hyperledger9
apache8
hyperledger-besu8
clique8
hyperledger-fabric7
crypto7
beacon6
artemis5
privacy5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Consensys/hellhound
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes in 1 month
sajz/kidner-project
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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