Ziad G.
Blockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere)
Experience
Oct 2023 - Present
2 years 3 monthsBlockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere)
Ethereum Foundation
- Attend core developer meetings on Roll Ups, PeerDAS, EVM and EIP4844
- Joined flashbot team and applied changes in MEV project
- Studied Geth project by running locally and experimenting in a test environment
- Conduct Bitcoin reading and study
- Keep updated with developments and underdeveloped aspects of the Ethereum chain
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
6 monthsCloud Service· Big Data Analytics
Amazon Training
- Worked with EC2, S3, IAM, KMS, CloudFormation, Elastic Load Balancer, SNS and SQS
- Utilized AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, Crawler, RDS, DynamoDB and Redshift
- Implemented Elastic Search, Lambda, Aurora, SageMaker, QuickSight and Virtual Private Cloud
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
1 year 6 monthsSoftware Engineering Consultant
Generation C
- Contributed to new project planning and scalable architecture
- Provided support for the development team, increasing productivity by 30%
- Kept updated with developments and underdeveloped aspects of the Ethereum chain
Mar 2020 - Present
5 years 10 monthsSenior Software Engineer/Chapter Lead (Fintech)
Blackstoneeit (Warba Bank)
- Work on massive-scale fintech and banking systems leading distributed backend designs
- Optimized complex SQL queries and stored using Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL, improving data performance and reliability across critical banking modules
- Designed and implemented high-throughput async services using Go (goroutines, channels) and Rust (Tokio), ensuring low-latency transaction processing
- Automated CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions and Jenkins
- Implemented observability with Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry
- Integrated SonarQube for static code analysis, doubling code reliability
- Re-architected software project that increases development speed and control by 60%
- Enhanced backend clustering and caching, increasing transaction processing speed by 30%
- Delivered major fintech features serving 500K+ monthly users
- Lead and mentored the backend engineering team, performing regular code reviews and performance audits
- Architected microservices integrated with Kafka for real-time, event-driven communication
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
1 year 2 monthsSoftware Team Lead
Generation C
- Responsible for applying the main project roadmap
- Built architectures and led team training
- Increased product performance and responsiveness by 40%
- Involved in decision making, doubling product usability
- Led, monitored and reviewed team code and performance
- Built automated CI/CD pipeline and set unit testing
- Communicated and collaborated with other departments
Summary
Senior Software Engineer specializing in Rust, Go, and distributed design bridging financial systems, decentralized infrastructure and AI automations
Languages
English
AdvancedArabic
ElementaryEducation
Cairo University
Pre-Masters Studies · AI, Data Science · Cairo, Egypt
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