Blockchain & AI Software Engineer

PhD Candidate

5+ Years of Software Engineering Experience

I love building blockchain applications and making the web more open for everyone. I’m fascinated by how AI is reshaping the world, and I enjoy experimenting with it and shaping it through my own code. Side projects are my weakness—once an idea hits, I can’t let it go.

📍Detroit, MI · Open to remote and on-site roles

Imran Pollob

Skills Overview

Tools & Strengths

Languages

Python JavaScript PHP Solidity Java C++

Frameworks

React Next.js Node.js Laravel

Blockchain

Solidity Foundry Hardhat Ethers.js Web3.js

AI/ML

LLM Finutuning LangChain RAG Vector DB Multimodal AI

Security

Smart contract security DeFi risk analysis Secure architectures

Cloud & Ops

AWS Azure ML Docker CI/CD Linux Git

Professional Experience

Timeline

  • Wayne State University logo

    Aug 2021 – Present · Detroit, MI

    Wayne State University

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    • Built AI-based methods for detecting vulnerabilities in Solidity smart contracts, focusing on improving security of decentralized applications.
    • Designed blockchain-based protocols for securing V2X communication in autonomous vehicles against spoofing, DoS, and adversarial attacks.
  • Cefalo logo

    Sep 2019 – Jul 2021

    Cefalo

    Software Engineer

    • Built Python-based web scrapers and data pipelines to automate data collection and processing from 150+ sources, reducing manual effort by ~60%.
    • Enhanced an internal recruitment platform using Laravel and Vue.js, streamlining workflows for 200+ active users.
    • Managed AWS cloud infrastructure, maintaining scalability, security, and 99.9% uptime.
  • Rapid Web Services logo

    May 2018 – Sep 2019

    Rapid Web Services

    Full-Stack Software Engineer

    • Developed and maintained a scalable inventory management system using Laravel, Node.js, and React, handling 10,000+ daily requests with 99% success rate.
  • Codalo logo

    Nov 2016 – Apr 2018

    Codalo

    Software Engineer

    • Contributed to the design and development of a school management system deployed across 20+ schools nationwide.

Flagship Projects

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NFT Rentals & Sales Protocol screenshot
Solidity · Foundry · ERC-721

NFT Rentals & Sales Protocol

- Implements ERC-4907 rentable NFTs with time-bounded user rights and ERC-2981 royalty support. - Combines rental listings, booking/check-in flow, and escrowed deposit/payment settlement across dedicated contracts. - Adds sales listings for atomic NFT purchases with pull-based payouts and reentrancy-protected fund handling.

AI Multi-Agent Trading System screenshot
Python · AI Agents · Gradio

AI Multi-Agent Trading System

- Orchestrates four autonomous trader agents (Buffett/Soros/Dalio/Wood styles) on a scheduled trading loop. - Uses OpenAI Agents SDK plus MCP servers for accounts, market data, research tools, and push notifications. - Persists trades/logs in SQLite and exposes real-time portfolio activity through a Gradio dashboard.

Notebase - Personal Knowledge Base screenshot
Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind

Notebase - Personal Knowledge Base

- Delivers instant Quill note-taking with optional cloud save, slug URLs, and password-protected notes. - Organizes notebooks and source ingestion (URL/files/notes) via queued extraction pipeline and status tracking. - Adds notebook-scoped RAG chat with cited answers, conversation memory, and Socialite auth (Google/GitHub).

Certifications

Credentials

Blockchain & Security

Security for Blockchain and DApps

  • Secured blockchain systems by mitigating vulnerabilities, DeFi risks, and cryptographic weaknesses.
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Blockchain Solution Architecture

  • Designed scalable blockchain systems with risk-aware architecture and integrated privacy and security.
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Blockchain Security

  • Applied blockchain security principles, analyzing threats and cryptographic attack surfaces to secure systems.
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AI & Machine Learning

IBM Generative AI Engineering

  • Learned foundational AI/ML security concepts
  • Explored threats, attack surfaces, and cryptography
  • Applied best practices for securing AI systems
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IBM RAG and Agentic AI

  • Mastered retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Worked with vector databases and multimodal AI
  • Built agentic multi-agent systems with LangChain, CrewAI
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Microsoft AI & ML Engineering

  • Learned core AI/ML algorithms and deep learning
  • Deployed cloud-based AI and designed intelligent agents
  • Applied ML workflows with Azure and modern tooling
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Contact

Let’s build something secure and intelligent.

I’m looking for opportunities in:

  • • Blockchain / Smart Contract Engineering
  • • Blockchain Security
  • • AI / ML Engineering (LLMs, RAG, applied ML)
  • • Full-Stack Software Engineering