Togzhan Barakbayeva
PhD Candidate
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolTogzhan Barakbayeva is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at HKUST with seven years of experience researching blockchain systems, cryptography, and smart contract optimization. Her publications span decentralized randomness generation, gas-efficient random beacons, and block production economics on Cardano, and she holds both a Hong Kong PhD Fellowship and an Ethereum Foundation research grant. She has practical engineering experience from internships at Nethermind and the Ethereum Foundation, where she evaluated novel proof folding schemes and built staking and commit-reveal dapps. Togzhan combines strong academic rigor with hands-on implementation—her work moves from formal research to deployed smart-contract frontends and high-traffic dashboards—and she also taught an introductory blockchain course as a TA.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Nazarbayev UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Kazakh, Russian, English, German
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
antd10
front-end-development10
ant10
react10
nameserver9
name-service9
ux-design8
ui-design8
ethereum7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
btogzhan2000/scaffold-eth
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
🏗 forkable Ethereum dev stack focused on fast product iterations
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 3 months
iterationsdevethereumfocusedtypescript
btogzhan2000/ea-cnn-complab
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 10 months
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