Samer Afach
Lead Blockchain Engineer at (Confidential)
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolSamer Afach is a Lead Blockchain Engineer with 11 years of low-level software and research experience, specializing in C++ and Rust to build secure, high-performance, and maintainable systems. He has led the design and implementation of permissionless blockchains end-to-end—spanning cryptography, consensus R&D, P2P networking, storage and LRU caching—and contributed code to major projects including Bitcoin, Monero and the Moonbeam parachain. His PhD in particle and atomic physics underpins a math-first approach to provable security, functional programming patterns, and reliability engineering that shows up in both blockchain runtimes and security-sensitive enterprise encryption work. Based in Abu Dhabi, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on production coding and a habit of implementing subtle optimizations and precompiled contracts that improve runtime correctness and performance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Particle and Atomic Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Particle and Atomic Physics at ETH ZürichMasters of Science Physics, Masters of Science Physics at University of Stuttgart
english, fluent, german, skilled, arabic, mother tongue
Github Skills (7)
substrate10
rust10
para10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts9
solidity8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
moonbeam-foundation/moonbeam
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
An Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain on Polkadot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Samer primarily focused on implementing precompiled contracts within the Moonbeam parachain runtime. Their work involved adding boilerplate functionality, fixing address-related issues, and developing a test for a precompiled contract. The user's contributions included code modifications to the runtime, including adding new precompiles to the runtime and creating tests to confirm the execution of precompiled code.
substratemoonbeamsmart-contractethereumcumulus
NeblioTeam/neblio
Jan 2018 - May 2022
Neblio Daemon & Wallet
Contributions:1651 commits, 115 PRs, 872 pushes in 4 years 4 months
ethereumdaemonblockchainwalletcrypto
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