Talal Ashraf
Staff Software Engineer at Caldera
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTalal Ashraf is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating blockchain and cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on scaling Ethereum systems at Caldera. He has led DevOps and infrastructure teams—most recently directing a 5-person team and a 75-validator Chain Operations initiative at Interop Labs—bridging day-to-day operations with cross-team integrations for Cosmos SDK networks. Talal’s background spans large-scale VPN and backend systems, multi-cloud deployment models, AIOps for productionizing ML features, and platform modernization using Terraform, EKS, and Go. Known for combining hands-on engineering with operator mindset, he moves systems from prototype to resilient production while keeping developer experience and observability front and center. Trained in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, he brings both hardware-aware thinking and software systems depth to complex distributed problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of TorontoO and A Levels Pre-Engineering, O and A Levels Pre-Engineering at Beaconhouse
English, Urdu
Github Skills (25)
interoperability10
blockchain10
axelar9
ethereum9
move8
unit-test8
sui8
cucumber6
rspec6
threshold6
testing6
grpc5
spec5
solidity4
x255194
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
axelarnetwork/ampd-release-testing
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
Permissionless Connections Service run on the Axelar Network
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
talalashraf/footballoye
Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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