shapkarin

Staff Software Engineer

I’m a Full-Stack Engineer with 14 years in production development across various sectors and distributed systems. Blockchain engineer since 2017 (8 years). I build end-to-end solutions from architecture and implementation to performance, security, CI/CD and Cloud. I prioritize system integrity and software supply chain security, actively employing battle-tested security tools.

Deep knowledge and experience in both AI and Web3, from core to ecosystem. Web2 included as well. 
A proven track record across all mentioned areas.

Bounties & Contributions

• Latest GitHub contributions to the MCP Debugging tool by Agentic AI Foundation and an agentic wallet
  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7467174175749693440/

• Contributions to major open-source repositories, including the MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem, agentic payments, Google web.dev, and Mozilla MDN engine repositories
  https://shapkarin.me/articles/contributions-to-major-web-dev-repos

• Meteora Bounty Winner
  https://x.com/meteoraag/status/2029467320775766297 (and several other bounties)

• More contributions
  https://github.com/shapkarin](https://github.com/shapkarin

Key Achievements

• Architected, integrated, and profiled an MCP server and AI chat system.
• Led end-to-end development of a multi-chain non-custodial launchpad for EVM and Solana, implementing deterministic token issuance flows.
• Won a Meteora bounty and several other bounties.
• Built a non-custodial browser extension and web wallet for the BitSong blockchain from scratch, including secure key handling and mnemonic generation.
• Architected a unified wallet abstraction layer across MetaMask, WalletConnect, Keplr, Phantom, and Solflare, enabling seamless cross-language interactions and cross-ecosystem signing flows.
• Designed and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines, achieving a 4x delivery improvement while maintaining strict security gates for wallet-related deployments.
• Worked with GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS, CDK, Oracle, and Terraform, including AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, and CDN integrations.
• Integrated advanced supply-chain protection using LavaMoat and pnpm permission controls to harden build pipelines against dependency attacks in financial software.
• Used StepSecurity and Socket.dev GitHub Actions and APIs for dependency analysis, warnings, and attack prevention.
• Led multiple projects and teams simultaneously, handling both technical delivery and team management.
• Added DRM support for video streaming, UI functionality, and partner API integrations.
• Delivered meaningful improvements to products and engineering workflows.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $106,000

Hourly rate: $75

Nationality: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

Residency: 🇩🇪 Germany


Experience

Staff Software Engineer
SideQuest Meta LTD
2024 - 2026
• Leading several cross-functional teams • PRDs, sprint planning, code reviews, architect with C4 • Led full-stack development across two SocialFi products and two teams: a multi-chain non-custodial launchpad and mass-adoption Web2.5 platform. • Designed and developed a multi-chain SocialFi launchpad (EVM, opBNB, Solana) with token issuance flows and non-custodial Web3 auth and interactions. • Built a Web2-oriented SocialFi product with custodial wallet integration and rich backend workflows. • Architected scalable frontend systems for high iteration speed. • Integrated MetaMask, WalletConnect, Phantom, Solflare with unified safe interaction patterns. Including auth with non-custodial wallets to use custom private API using SIWE • Implement CI/CD delivery speed which increases delivery by 4× through GitHub Actions, Docker and AWS. • Implemented supply-chain protection using LavaMoat and pnpm permission controls. • Mentored engineers and guided architectural decisions.
Senior Software Engineer
evmOS
2022 - 2023
A historical public dApp snapshot preserved by the Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20220529093248/https://app.evmos.org/mission-control The Ethereum smart contract is still accessible in 2026. Integrated multiple wallets auth including MetaMask, Keplr and Walletconnect. Implemented staking, IBC transfers, DAO interactions with pretty UI. Improved UX, stability and rendering efficiency across complex components. High-performance dApp. Implemented Go backend.
Senior Software Engineer | Non-permanent contractor
Xora
2021 - 2022
https://app.bitsong.io/ Developed a non-custodial browser extension and web crypto wallet from scratch with secure key handling for the BitSong blockchain. Built staking, IBC transfers, and client-side transaction construction https://www.linkedin.com/company/swaptok/ Built a copy-trading MVP (Swap Tok) integrating CEX and DEX execution with deterministic order state machines. Implement Node.jd backend Implement React.js frontend
Senior Software Engineer
Avallain
2017 - 2021
Big EdTech Swiss company Developed cross-platform mobile using Qt and React Native. Maintained enterprise-level frontend systems with strict security requirements. Maintained enterprise-level frontend systems (React, Qt WebEngine, Qt, XML, security). Improved rendering performance and developed reusable UI components.
Senior Front-End Developer
æternity blockchain
2017 - 2020
Core developer on Superhero Wallet, a multi-chain non-custodial wallet supporting AE, ETH, and BTC. Built the Superhero SocialFi dApp platform with wallet-authenticated interactions. Created superhero-utils SDK for third-party integration.

Skills

ci-cd
cosmos
docker
ethereum
golang
solana
full-stack
english
polish