Ziad G.

Blockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere)

Cairo, Poland

Experience

Oct 2023 - Present
2 years 2 months

Blockchain 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 months

Cloud 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 months

Software 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 9 months

Senior 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 months

Software 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
Advanced
Arabic
Elementary

Education

Cairo University

Pre-Masters Studies · AI, Data Science · Cairo, Egypt

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