Michał Nazarewicz

Independent Researcher

• Authored and presented the ‘Be My Guest’ paper about blockchain interoperability at the IEEE/IFIP DSN 2025 conference.
• Continue collaborating with Universidade de Lisboa on research papers on blockchains optimisations and connectivity.

Technologies: Rust

Software Engineer at Composable Finance

• Designed and implemented Solana IBC connection to Cosmos ecosystem. This required a novel approach to deploy IBC module on Solana which does not support the IBC protocol.
• Designed SVM-based rolloup on Solana using a novel state proofs and IBC communication.

Technologies: Rust, Python

Software Engineer at NEAR

• Become the top contributor working on the stability and performance of the NEAR node.
• Reduced storage requirements of archival nodes by over 50% and enabled data migration from SSDs to HDDs, resulting in significant cost savings.
• Engineered and delivered external Coinbase integration.

Technologies: Rust, Python

Core Developer at Hudson River Trading

• Integrated low-latency market data feeds and order entry interfaces with traditional and cryptocurrency exchanges.
• Fixed bugs in and engineered a more robust, high-performance time-zone API.
• Drove performance gains in internal core libraries by leveraging modern C++ features, eliminate memory allocations, accelerated critical operations using SIMD instructions.
• Resolved mission-critical production issues during live trading hours and championed operational best practices that measurably improved system robustness.

Technologies: C++

Quant Developer at Barclays Capital

• Created a framework for automated verification of algorithm’s behaviour, ensuring compliance with regulations and risk exposure policies. While still in its evaluation period, the system caught a violation prior to it reaching production.

Technologies: Java, Python

Site Reliability Engineer at Google

• Ensured the reliability and scalability of a diverse portfolio of critical services, including: a large scale payments processing infrastructure, a production change automation service, and internal CRM and HR systems.
• My roles varied from Site Reliability Engineer through Software Engineer to Tech Lead, often involving a mixture of roles.

Technologies: Python, shell scripts, C++, SQL and plethora of internal Google technologies

Software Engineer (Linux Kernel) at Samsung Electronics

• Contributed over 180 accepted patches to the Linux kernel.
• Authored Contiguous Memory Allocator and Mass Storage USB function driver.
• Worked on USB composite framework and FunctionFS API.

Technologies: C, shell scripts, C++

Warsaw University of Technology

Bachelor of Computer Science defended with honours at the Information Technology and Electronics Department.