Valeriy Zamaraiev
Founder at Seeblock.ai
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolValeriy Zamaraiev is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 16 years of experience spanning BigTech, blockchain, and AI startups, currently based in Zurich. He has held senior engineering roles including CTO and Head of Distributed Systems, combining hands-on systems programming in Rust, Python, C++, Solidity and more with strategic product and team leadership. Valeriy advised 100+ Web3 companies at 1kx, led engineering at Zilliqa and contributed to prominent blockchain projects like Zilliqa and DFINITY, where his work focused on performance-sensitive encoding and EVM-related improvements. His core interests—programming languages, VMs, cryptography, zero-knowledge, distributed systems and LLM-driven agents—reflect a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and cutting-edge research appetite. He also runs consulting ventures (Seeblock.ai, DYOR cloud) and brings the perspective of having reviewed thousands of startups, making him adept at technical due diligence and practical, security-minded architecture.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at National University «Kyiv Aviation Institute»
Github Skills (14)
data-serialization10
rust10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
serialization10
flatbuffers9
benchmarking9
evm9
bincode8
avro8
proto8
capnproto8
gnu8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Zilliqa/Zilliqa
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:321 reviews, 302 commits, 202 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Valeriy primarily focused on fixing and improving the codebase related to the Zilliqa blockchain platform. They made changes to improve the formatting of license clauses within the code, ensuring compliance. Their work involved addressing include guards, fixing compiler warnings and ensuring code quality by running clang-format and clang-tidy. The user also made adjustments to the EVM related components.
blockchain-platformzilliqablockchainscalehigh-throughput
dfinity/ic
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 15 branches in 2 months
Contributions summary:Valeriy's commits primarily focus on integrating and testing various encoding and serialization methods within the Internet Computer (IC) blockchain source code. They added benchmarks for encoding formats like Flatbuffers, Bincode, Cap'n Proto, and Avro, demonstrating a focus on performance optimization and data representation. The changes include adding and testing various encoding and serialization methods. These were done using Rust.
replicablockchainnodesdfinityinternet
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