Syeam Bin Abdullah

Founding Software Engineer at kinitro.ai
- Designed and built infrastructure for a competition-driven model development platform targeting RL and embodied AI problems, including robotics-style tasks and custom evaluation workflows.
- Architected and maintained Kubernetes deployments providing reliable, scalable execution of evaluation services with real-time coordination between system components.

Founding Software Engineer at TaoFi · Full-time
- Developed smart contracts and backend components powering a decentralized exchange on the Bittensor blockchain, including liquidity pool logic and on-chain settlement.
- Built and deployed a high-reliability blockchain indexing pipeline on Kubernetes/GKE, significantly improving data ingestion consistency and reducing downstream service failures.
- Led development of the Sturdy Subnet — a decentralized system enabling participants to submit and compete with asset-allocation algorithms that control real capital deployment on-chain.
- Designed the validation and scoring logic to evaluate competing algorithms fairly and securely within the Bittensor incentive framework.

Software Consultant · Freelance
- Delivered production-grade software solutions and strategic technical consulting to clients in the fintech, blockchain, and Al domains, driving innovation and operational excellence through scalable architecture, secure system design, and alignment with regulatory and business objectives.
- Consistently on-boarded into new technical domains quickly and shipped working software under deadline - operating across backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and protocol-level engineering.

Bachelor of Computer Science (Advanced) at University of Adelaide
- Was Member of the CS Club, contributed to several open source projects, such as a voxel engine built from the ground up with C++ and OpenGL.