Roshaan S
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRoshaan S is a founder and CTO based in Chicago with 8 years of engineering experience building high-throughput fintech and Web3 systems. He has shipped production services across the stack—from Rust-based Solana indexers and real-time ClickHouse pipelines to React/React Native apps and scalable AWS/Terraform infrastructure—while leading small teams through acquisitions and aquahires. As a hands-on engineer he has driven cost reductions, weekly releases for 1.2M users, and maintained multi-terabyte RDS deployments, demonstrating an operational rigor beyond typical startup CTOs. His open-source front-end contributions to the NEAR Wallet (including NFT media improvements and key-rotation flows) underscore a practical focus on UX and security in crypto products. Comfortable in ML, game dev, algo trading, and mobile, he blends a broad technical curiosity with product-minded execution. Outside work he publishes a technical blog and actively tracks emerging blockchain projects, signaling a continuous appetite for learning and ecosystem engagement.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Wesleyan UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at AIT-BudapestComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Make SchoolLiberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at University of Chicago
English, Urdu, Turkish, Arabic
Github Skills (10)
crypto-wallet10
wallet10
javascript10
ethereum-wallet10
nft10
web3js10
react10
bitcoin-wallet10
blockchain9
testing4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
near/near-wallet
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Web wallet for NEAR Protocol which stores keys in browser's localStorage
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 72 commits, 55 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Roshaan primarily contributed to the front-end of the NEAR wallet, focusing on implementing new features and refactoring existing components. Their work included adding video support to the NFT detail screen, refactoring the NFT media component, and integrating features like key rotation for wallet migration. The user also addressed error handling and made minor UI adjustments.
localstoragenearprotocolblockchainwalletreact
yyprime-exchange/yyprime-exchange
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:15 PRs, 19 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 9 months
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