Aatif Syed

Aatif Syed is a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on Rust development, fintech, and backend systems.

At ChainSafe Systems, Aatif applied expertise in Rust to the Forest project, an open-source node for the Filecoin L1, contributing to new features and critical ecosystem milestones. Aatif also played a key role in upskilling the team on Rust through mentorship and educational initiatives.

Previously, as a Software Engineer at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, Aatif was instrumental in migrating the Kraken Futures trading engine to Rust, prioritizing latency, performance, and correctness. This involved autonomously writing architectural RFCs and developing a robust Rust testing harness.

During time at Microsoft and Metaswitch Networks, Aatif was named on a patent application for architecting and implementing a C/async Rust binding layer to enable interoperability between actor and asynchronous frameworks. Aatif also contributed to DPDK dataplane work and TLS security.

Aatif's core skills include Rust, Java, Kotlin, Spring Framework, Apache Kafka, Python, and C, with a strong background in software architecture and open-source contributions.

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