Shoaib Ahmed
Protocol Engineer at Cycles Protocol SA
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolShoaib Ahmed is a Protocol Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-assurance decentralized and privacy-preserving systems, currently leading development on the Cycles protocol and quartz-rs (an SGX sidecar for CosmWasm). He is a Rust specialist and former core contributor to ibc-rs and tendermint-rs, creator of basecoin-rs, and has made notable reliability and feature contributions to the widely used Hermes IBC relayer. His work spans consensus engines, VMs (CosmWasm, EVM), zk circuits, TEEs, and protocol design—he co-authored the Cycles whitepaper and implemented a production-grade shielded pool and a fast primal-dual min-cost flow engine. Comfortable moving between research and systems, Shoaib reads and implements advances in threshold and quantum cryptography and has authored research like QuanTEEum. Based in Dubai, he pairs deep low-level engineering (embedded, cryptography, SGX) with protocol-level architecture and a creative side as an Urdu ghazal writer under the pen name Sufi-Al-Hussaini.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced PG Diploma Embedded System Design (DESD), Advanced PG Diploma Embedded System Design (DESD) at Center for development of advanced computing (CDAC)Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at jobs in computer software
English, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Arabic, German
Github Skills (9)
bc10
rust10
blockchain10
cli9
tendermint9
automated-tests8
git8
cicd7
cosmos7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
informalsystems/hermes
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
IBC Relayer in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:323 reviews, 303 commits, 92 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shoaib made significant contributions to the Hermes relayer project, focusing on implementing new features and improving the reliability of the system. They implemented logic for validating trust thresholds and added functionality to include the CLI git hash, git dirty command, and escaped regex meta for acceptance tests. Furthermore, they implemented the new `keys delete` command and refactored several aspects of the codebase. Their work also involved handling begin and end-block channel events.
rustblockchainibccosmosrelayer
hu55a1n1/hu55a1n1.github.io
Sep 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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