Senior Protocol Engineer
📍 Dubai, UAE
Senior Protocol Engineer with 10+ years of experience building L1/L2 blockchain protocols, consensus systems, and ZK infrastructure using Go and Rust within the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems.
Polygon
Feb 2023 — Present
Designed sub-minute L1 to L2 deposit mechanism; built decentralized AggOracle for L1-to-L2 data relay; developed Aggkit Bridge APIs for Agglayer cross-chain hub; open-sourced chain-agnostic Aggkit SDK; developed Zero Integration Layer middleware between Ethereum clients and Zero Prover for block ZK proofs; led Delhi Fork reducing sprint length from 64 to 16 blocks (PIP 5); led Aalborg Fork achieving deterministic finality under 60s (PIP 11).
Polygon
Apr 2020 — Jan 2023
Investigated MEV on Polygon PoS and published validator-focused impact report; built automated private devnet framework with CI integration; integrated EIPs from Geth to Bor (PIP 31, PIP 33); optimized validator operations on Cosmos-SDK PoS chain (Heimdall); enhanced Heimdall bridge for validator operations and token transfers.
Fortanix
Sept 2018 — Apr 2020
MoEngage
Jul 2017 — Aug 2018
Housing.com
Jun 2015 — Jun 2017