Artashes Yamukyan — Senior Software Engineer — Backend & Blockchain Protocol

Senior Software Engineer - Fasttoken (Fastex ecosystem's blockchain - Bahamut chain and ftNFT marketplace)

Duration: Jan 2024 – Mar 2026
Summary:

• Development and maintenance of the Fastex ecosystem's blockchain, powering the Bahamut chain and ftNFT marketplace
• The project involves core protocol engineering and building indexer data microservices to support a high-performance blockchain network with a market cap peak of $2B

Responsibilities:

• Adapted Ethereum's CasperFFG and LMD-GHOST consensus mechanisms into a custom Bahamut PoSA consensus layer with protocol-level modifications.
• Validated consensus protocol pre-release on a production network.
• Adapted cryptography and P2P networking components including BLS, ECDSA/ECDH, libp2p, and GossipSub.
• Diagnosed and fixed consensus-client bugs improving network stability and node correctness.
• Built core cryptographic primitives including ZK circuits for decentralized identity and TSS-based MPC nodes for secure distributed signing.
• Architected and built a high-throughput EVM indexer and data microservices for near-real-time blockchain data ingestion and normalization.
• Scaled data layer using Clickhouse, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, and Redis to handle large volumes of indexed blockchain data.
• Developed REST and gRPC APIs, SSE for real-time updates, and EdDSA-signed webhook services for on-chain event subscriptions.

Technologies: Go, C++, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Neo4j, Redis, libp2p, GossipSub, BLS, ECDSA, ECDH, ZK circuits (gnark), TSS/MPC, Geth, Prysm

Senior Software Engineer L1 - Flow (Multi-chain non-custodial wallet and crypto-fiat services backend)

Duration: Oct 2022 – Jul 2023
Summary: Development of backend services for a multi-chain non-custodial wallet supporting over 7 blockchain networks and integration of crypto-fiat exchange services enabling seamless swaps across supported chains.
Responsibilities:

• Architected and delivered backend services for a multi-chain wallet supporting Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, and others.
• Built crypto-fiat exchange engine integrating Circle API for seamless user swaps.
• Developed transaction tracking and asset monitoring systems using Infura and local archival nodes to provide unified portfolio views.

Technologies: Go, MongoDB, Infura, Circle API

Software Engineer - IntegralLabs (Graphene (Bitshares 2.0) fork protocol implementation)

Duration: Aug 2021 – Oct 2022
Summary: Implementation of core protocol mechanisms for a Graphene blockchain fork, focusing on consensus rules and network performance optimization using modern C++17.
Responsibilities:

• Implemented consensus rules and optimized network performance for the Graphene fork.
• Used compile-time reflection and template metaprogramming for type-safe serialization and RPC.
• Built high-concurrency asynchronous networking with Boost.Asio and Boost.Fibers.
• Established C++ development standards and best practices for concurrency, networking, and cryptography.
• Mentored junior engineers to improve team velocity and code quality.

Technologies: C++17, Boost.Asio, Boost.Fibers, Boost promise/future, template metaprogramming

Junior Software Engineer - ISPRAS (Binary Reverse Engineering and Compiler Optimization)

Duration: Oct 2019 – Aug 2021
Summary: Research and development in binary reverse engineering and compiler optimization, focusing on restoring debug symbols and improving JVM performance through LLVM IR translation.
Responsibilities:

• Restored debug symbols in stripped release builds using Binary Code Clone tools and Control Flow Graph comparison.
• Optimized JVM performance by mapping Java Bytecode to LLVM IR and replacing call blobs with optimized LLVM-generated code.

Technologies: C++, Python, LLVM, LLVM IR, JVM Bytecode

Solo founder & engineer (Kdraigo - Algorithmic Trading & Backtesting Platform)

Duration: Oct 2023 – Present
Summary: Architected and built a high-performance backend platform for simulating, backtesting, and deploying quantitative trading strategies with live execution and detailed telemetry.
Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented the entire backend from the ground up in Go.
• Built an MCP server and a Claude Code skill to enable AI agents to scaffold, run, and iterate on trading strategies end-to-end.

Technologies: Go

Open-Source Collaborator (CyberFusion - Open-Source Robotics Initiative)

Duration: Apr 2023 – Jul 2024
Summary: Contributed to open-source robotics platforms by designing and implementing robotic control and operation modules for accessible robots including the Ayg quadruped robot.
Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented robotic control and operation modules using ROS2.
• Contributed to accessibility and functionality of open-source robotics platforms.

Technologies: C++, ROS2

Developer (Granium.io - Decentralized Storage Network MVP)

Duration: Jun 2024 – Oct 2024
Summary: Designed and implemented core storage and retrieval mechanisms for a decentralized storage network MVP, including reservation and validation protocols and secure P2P data transfer with data redundancy.
Responsibilities:

• Implemented reservation and validation protocols for decentralized storage.
• Developed secure P2P transfer mechanisms using ECDH, Noise, ECDSA/EdDSA.
• Designed, documented, and formally validated the worker–pool consensus mechanism to ensure trustless and fair reward distribution.

Technologies: Go, Cosmos SDK, libp2p, ECDH, Noise Protocol, ECDSA, EdDSA, Python (for pseudocode modeling)