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.
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
Altiplanic 2022 - 2023
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