Scouting report
Polkadot core engineer, ex-Parity, 877 merged PRs
assessed from open-source footprint
Shawn is a standout: a Rust/blockchain principal who contributed directly to polkadot-sdk (2,765★) and polkadot-js/apps (1,821★) and merged a remarkable 877 PRs last year. His own teaching repos are widely used too — the Substrate Collectables Workshop (240★) and a from-scratch Rust State Machine (88★) — backed by 1,108 followers. A top-tier hire for Web3, Polkadot/Substrate, or any team needing deep Rust and protocol experience.
Authorship & open source
Contributes to
- paritytech/polkadot-sdk2,765★
- polkadot-js/apps1,821★
- w3f/polkadot-wiki431★
- paritytech/parity-common310★
What they build
Industry experience
- Developer Tools
- Fintech & Payments
- Education & EdTech
Signal breakdown
958
top repo 240
61
37% forks
1,108
13.9 yr
36
Active
52% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 96% of commits on substrate-collectables-workshop
- Open-source contributor — 15 external projects incl. paritytech/polkadot-sdk (2,765★)
- 877 merged pull requests
- 1,383 commits in the past year
- 958 stars earned across projects
- A standout project with 240 stars
- Ships to production — 36 live demos
About
Discovery through experience. Polkadot Address: 12hAtDZJGt4of3m2GqZcUCVAjZPALfvPwvtUTFZPQUbdX1Ud — 138 public repositories and 1,108 followers on GitHub.
Skills
- JavaScript
- Rust
- HTML
- Polkadot
- Substrate
- TypeScript
- Ethereum
- Web3js
Featured work
Substrate Collectables Workshop
A guided tutorial for building an NFT marketplace with the Polkadot SDK
- Rust
- Marketplace
- Nft
- Polkadot
- Substrate
by Shawn Tabrizi
Rust State Machine
A tutorial for building a Polkadot SDK-like state machine written from scratch in Rust.
- Rust
- Blockchain
- Polkadot
- State Machine
- Substrate
by Shawn Tabrizi