Tim Mustafin

Lead Engineer · trading & digital-asset infrastructure · Amsterdam

I build and run financial systems where real money is at stake. Today I work on Shield Swap at Provable — a confidential trading venue on Aleo where prices stay public and traders stay private.

Before that: platform engineering at Bitvavo, a regulated crypto exchange; Web3 infrastructure at Airstack and Chainstack; and a decade of backend, data and SRE work before it.

Work

2026 — now
Lead Engineer, Shield Swap · Provable

Work on infrastructure, CI/CD, releases, monitoring and incident response, from development through early access.

  • $42M+ cumulative volume
  • ~$2M TVL, 4× since early access
  • 5K+ transactions / day

Public product data, DefiLlama, Oct 2026.

2025 — 2026
Senior DevOps Engineer · Provable

Fast, reliable CI/CD for the core developer of the Aleo network.

2024 — 2025
Platform Engineer · Bitvavo

Developer-experience team at a regulated European crypto exchange: removing obstacles so product teams ship faster.

2023 — 2024
Senior DevOps Engineer · Airstack, Dubai

Whole-stack infrastructure for Web3 data APIs, from blockchain RPC nodes to Kubernetes and deployments.

2022 — 2023
R&D / Infrastructure Engineer · Chainstack

Multi-cloud blockchain infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Azure; PoCs for IPFS, The Graph, indexing and new protocols.

2015 — 2022
Team lead, SRE, backend · Yoloco, X5 Retail Group, Stride.one

Led a team of 7, moved infrastructure to Kubernetes on GCP, cut ETL costs ~60%, and built observability for large retail systems.

Projects

2013 — 2021
ClienD

Unofficial iOS and Android client for Tatarstan's school e-diary, built as a student — 100K+ monthly users at peak.

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