Ziad Ghali - Blockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere)

Q: Where is Ziad based?

Ziad is based in Cairo, Poland .

Q: What languages does Ziad speak?

Ziad speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), Arabic (Elementary) .

Q: How many years of experience does Ziad have?

Ziad has at least 7 years of experience. During this time, Ziad has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 4 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 5 months . Note that Ziad may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Ziad's latest experience?

Ziad's most recent position is Blockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere) at Ethereum Foundation .

Q: What companies has Ziad worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ziad has worked for Ethereum Foundation , Amazon Training , Generation C , and Blackstoneeit (Warba Bank) .

Q: Which industries is Ziad most experienced in?

Ziad is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance and Information Technology (IT) .

Q: Which business areas is Ziad most experienced in?

Ziad is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Product Development , and Research and Development (R&D) . Ziad also has some experience in Business Intelligence .

Q: Which industries has Ziad worked in recently?

Ziad has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance and Information Technology (IT) .

Q: Which business areas has Ziad worked in recently?

Ziad has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Product Development , and Research and Development (R&D) .

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Cairo, Poland

Experience

Oct 2023 - Present

2 years 5 months

Blockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere)

Ethereum Foundation

Attended 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.
Performed Grooking Bitcoin reading and study.
Kept updated with new and underdeveloped features in the Ethereum chain.

Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

6 months

Cloud Service, Big Data Analytics

Amazon Training

Used Amazon EC2, S3, IAM, KMS, CloudFormation, Elastic Load Balancer, SNS, and SQS.
Worked with 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 new and underdeveloped features in the Ethereum chain.

Mar 2020 - Present

6 years

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, increasing 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.
Led 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

Applied the main project roadmap.
Built architectures and trained the team.
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 up unit testing.
Communicated and collaborated with other departments.

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Banking and Finance (6 years) and Information Technology (5 years).

Banking and Finance

Information Technology

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Information Technology (7 years), Product Development (7 years), Research and Development (4 years), and Business Intelligence (0.5 years).

Information Technology

Product Development

Research and Development

Business Intelligence

Summary

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Rust, Go, and distributed design bridging financial systems, decentralized infrastructure and AI automations

Skills

Keywords

Solana
Ethereum
Geth
Substrate
Cosmos
Protocol
Typescript
Rust
Golang
Consensus
P2p
Smart Contracts
Chainlink
Ipfs
Zk-rollups

Core Focus

Blockchain Protocol Engineering
Backend Architecture
Distributed Systems
Devops Automation

Rust

Tokio
Async-std
Cargo
Clippy
Criterion
Anchor Framework
Solana Sdk
Solana Program Test
Ethers-rs
Substrate
Polkadot Sdk
Move Language
Actix-web
Serde
Diesel
Seaorm
Mockall
Ed25519-dalek
Bls
Curve25519
Libp2p
Borsh

Golang

Fiber
Gin
Echo
Chi
Gorm
Testify
Goroutines
Channels
Workerpool
Gomock
Benchstat
Viper
Logrus
Jwt-go
Grpc-go
Protobuf
Cosmos Sdk
Go-ethereum (Geth)
Tendermint
Libp2p-go

Java

Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Hibernate
Jpa
Spring Webflux
Aws Sqs/sns
Apache Kafka
Jackson
Grpc-java
Spring Security
Oauth2
Jwt
Junit 5
Mockito
Testcontainers
Maven
Gradle
Sonarqube

Distributed Systems & Devops

Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Kafka
Rabbitmq
Nats
Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgresql
Prometheus
Grafana
Opentelemetry
Jenkins
Github Actions

Languages

English

Advanced

Arabic

Elementary

Education

Cairo University

Pre-Masters Studies · AI & DataScience · Cairo, Egypt

Profile

Created

November 2025

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Where is Ziad based?

Ziad is based in Cairo, Poland.

What languages does Ziad speak?

Ziad speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), Arabic (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Ziad have?

Ziad has at least 7 years of experience. During this time, Ziad has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 4 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 5 months. Note that Ziad may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Ziad be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Ziad would be well-suited for roles such as: Blockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere), Cloud Service, Big Data Analytics, Software Engineering Consultant.

What is Ziad's latest experience?

Ziad's most recent position is Blockchain Core Protocol Engineer (Cohere) at Ethereum Foundation.

What companies has Ziad worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ziad has worked for Ethereum Foundation, Amazon Training, Generation C, and Blackstoneeit (Warba Bank).

Which industries is Ziad most experienced in?

Ziad is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance and Information Technology (IT).

Which business areas is Ziad most experienced in?

Ziad is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Product Development, and Research and Development (R&D). Ziad also has some experience in Business Intelligence.

Which industries has Ziad worked in recently?

Ziad has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance and Information Technology (IT).

Which business areas has Ziad worked in recently?

Ziad has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Product Development, and Research and Development (R&D).

What is Ziad's education?

Ziad holds a Master in AI & DataScience from Cairo University.

What is the availability of Ziad?

Ziad is immediately available for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Ziad?

Ziad's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.