# Tim Mustafin

> Lead engineer working on Shield Swap, a confidential trading venue on Aleo (Provable). 10+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering and SRE across a regulated crypto exchange (Bitvavo), Web3 infrastructure (Airstack, Chainstack) and backend/data systems. Based in the Amsterdam area, Netherlands.

## Links
- [Website](https://mustafin.dev)
- [Résumé, JSON Resume format](https://mustafin.dev/resume.json)
- [CV, PDF](https://mustafin.dev/Tim_Mustafin_CV.pdf)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-mustafin)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/14MR)
- Email: tim@mustafin.dev · Telegram: @mustafin

## Experience
- 2026-06 – now · Provable · Lead Engineer, Shield Swap — works on infrastructure, CI/CD, releases, monitoring and incident response, from development through early access. Public product metrics (DefiLlama, 2026-10-22): ~$1.97M TVL (up from ~$463K in Aug 2026), $42.1M cumulative volume, ~5.5K transactions/day.
- 2025-11 – 2026-05 · Provable · Senior DevOps Engineer — CI/CD pipelines for the Aleo core developer.
- 2024-09 – 2025-10 · Bitvavo (regulated crypto exchange) · Platform Engineer, Developer Experience.
- 2023-07 – 2024-08 · Airstack (Web3 data APIs), Dubai · Senior DevOps Engineer — infrastructure from RPC nodes to Kubernetes and deployments.
- 2022-07 – 2023-06 · Chainstack · R&D Engineer — PoCs for IPFS, Web3 hosting, The Graph, indexing, subnets.
- 2022-01 – 2022-07 · Chainstack · Infrastructure Engineer — multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, Virtuozzo) with Terraform and Helm.
- 2021-04 – 2022-01 · Yoloco · Development Team Lead — led 7 engineers; 3 new services; Azure VMs to IaC/GKE; ETL pipeline ~60% cheaper.
- 2020-08 – 2021-04 · X5 Retail Group · SRE / DevOps — CI/CD on Kubernetes and VMs; observability (Loki, Sentry, Prometheus).
- 2015 – 2020 · Yoloco, Stride.one, HART · backend and DevOps engineering (Django, Celery, ClickHouse, Docker, GitLab CI).

## Projects
- RedactOffline (https://redactoffline.app) — iOS app for on-device removal of personal data from photos.
- ClienD (2013–2021) — unofficial iOS/Android school e-diary client; 100K+ monthly users at peak.

## Skills
Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Docker; AWS (EKS), GCP (GKE), Azure; GitLab CI; SRE and incident response; Prometheus, Loki, Sentry; Python, Go, TypeScript/Node.js, SQL; PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ; DEX/AMM operations, blockchain node and RPC infrastructure, stablecoins, zero-knowledge privacy systems.

## Education
- MSc, Software Engineering & Computer Science — Schaffhausen Institute of Technology
- BSc, Computer Science (Security & Blockchain minor) — Innopolis University, 2017–2021

## Languages
Russian (native), English (professional)