Shant Karakashian
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShant Karakashian is a Principal Software Engineer based in Greater Boston with a PhD-level research background and over a decade of industry experience building high-performance backend platforms in Go, C++, Java, and Python. He has led low-latency systems and distributed services at MathWorks, designed networking and storage components for Algorand’s Go node (including signature verification and block cloud storage), and now drives architecture and delivery at Oracle. His work on the widely used algorand/go-algorand repo includes improving error handling, end-to-end asset management tests, and performance fixes for transaction processing—demonstrating both production rigor and deep systems insight. Comfortable moving between research and product engineering, he favors practical tooling and testing strategies that uncover subtle performance and correctness issues.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Nebraska-LincolnETH ZürichMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at American University of Beirut
Github Skills (5)
go10
blockchain10
testing9
error-handling9
network8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
algorand/go-algorand
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Algorand's official implementation in Go.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1054 reviews, 177 commits, 178 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shant primarily contributed to the Go implementation of the Algorand blockchain. They improved error messages, added end-to-end tests for asset management, and tested asset clawback functionalities. The user also worked on testing and fixing performance issues, specifically addressing transaction processing within the system.
golangblockchainalgorand
algonautshant/win-go-algorand
Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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