Curriculum Vitae

• Kian Paimani
• Blockchain Systems Engineer/Lead
• [email protected]
• blog.kianenigma.com
• Github / X / Youtube
• Based in 🇵🇹 / Remote

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Parity Technologies (2019 - Present)

Starting as a Rust developer in 2019 with little blockchain experience, I have worn multiple hats across the years, the highlights of which are as follows:

• Implemented the majority of Polkadot's Nominated Proof of Stake protocol, requiring complex optimization algorithms to be verified onchain (talk).
  • Polkadot maintains one of the highest Nakamoto Coefficients in the industry, with minimal stake variation among validators.
• Led development of Polkadot's core technology framework, Substrate Framework and FRAME, as team lead.
  • FRAME and Substrate power Polkadot and its entire ecosystem, along with independent blockchains (1, 2) that have adopted the same stack.
  • Polkadot developers using Substrate and FRAME ranked in the top 5 of the Electric Capital Developer Report between 2021 and 2024 (1).
• Managed engineering teams of up to 10 people, both as an engineering manager and on a per-project basis.
• Curriculum designer and Faculty member at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy.
• Member of the Polkadot Technical Fellowship DAO, with active involvement across the ecosystem.

Beyond software engineering, teaching and technology evangelization are my core passions. I actively pursue opportunities to educate and inspire through my YouTube channel and blog, and aspire to always benefit the company I am a part of with my communication and teaching.

PROJECTS

• Currently implementing the JAM protocol in Elixir as an independent venture in the Polkadot ecosystem.

EDUCATION

• Master of Science in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Thesis: SonicChain: A wait-free, pseudo-static approach toward concurrency in blockchain runtimes
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering
  • Iran University of Science and Technology
  • Thesis: Node-XYZ: A Microservice Framework for Node.JS

PUBLICATIONS

• What is a Blockchain, Actually?
  • The largest body of written text produced by me as a hobby project, aiming to address precisely what blockchain-systems actually are, what they can do, and how a system with such abilities can be useful.
• From Machine Generated to Handwritten Character Recognition; a Deep Learning Approach
  • A research project on using deep neural networks for cursive languages such as Persian.
• Lazy Programmer's Guide to Angular 1.x
  • Authored as an early Angular adopter, documenting insights into the framework before React's dominance.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

• Persian (Native)
• English (Fluent)
• German / Portuguese (Basic)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Extensive professional experience in Rust and TypeScript, with occasional use of Python and Solidity.
• Deep expertise in blockchain consensus mechanisms, distributed systems, and State-Transition-Function design.
• Built and maintained blockchain development pipelines using Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, Grafana, and Prometheus for reliable deployment and monitoring.