Pouriya Zarbafian

Engineer & Researcher

About Me

From research labs to production systems, I design and build distributed protocols. My work bridges academic rigor with hands-on engineering, shaped by a PhD in Distributed Systems and experience across Europe and Australia.


I am working towards the vision of an ubiquitous blockchain, applying rigorous protocol design and high-performance Rust to help bridge the gap between theoretical security and global scale.


Get in touch by email: pouriya (A T) zarbafian (dօt) com

Pouriya Zarbafian

Publications

Resilience to Chain-Quality Attacks in Fair Separability. V. Gramoli, Z. Lu, Q. Tang, P. Zarbafian: 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2024.

Optimal and Fair Ordering of Financial Transactions. V. Gramoli, Z. Lu, Q. Tang, P. Zarbafian: 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2024.

Aion: Secure Transaction Ordering using TEEs. P. Zarbafian, V. Gramoli: 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2023.

Lyra: Fast and Scalable Resilience to Reordering Attacks in Blockchains. P. Zarbafian, V. Gramoli: 37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2023.

BA: Ordered Reliable Broadcast and Fast Ordered Byzantine Consensus for Cryptocurrency. P. Zarbafian, V. Gramoli: 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2021. Watch video

Migrating the IT environment of a governmental institution to a SOA. N. Biri, P. Bauler, F. Feltz, P. Zarbafian, K. Acem: IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), 2007.

Résumé

Protocol Engineer
Amaroo
Since Dec 2023
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PhD Candidate
University of Sydney
Mar 2021 – Feb 2025 · 4 yrs
Research in distributed systems, blockchain security, and scalability.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Principal Software Engineer
Global Jet Luxembourg
Aug 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos
Hespérange, Luxembourg
Senior Developer (Freelance)
Chambre des Députés
Jan 2017 – Apr 2017 · 4 mos
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Solutions Architect
Q-Leap
Oct 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Senior Consultant
Hamlet Consulting Luxembourg
Jan 2015 – Oct 2015 · 10 mos
Application Engineer for SIX Payment Services.
Leudelange, Luxembourg
Software Test Engineer
I.R.I.S. Product and Technologies
May 2010 – Jun 2014 · 4 yrs 2 mos
Windhof, Luxembourg
Researcher
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Nov 2005 – Aug 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos
Belvaux, Luxembourg

Projects

Lyra - Code source of the experimental evaluation of Lyra.
Gossip Boys - A simulator for gossip protocols based on the parameters presented in Gossip-based Peer Sampling.
gossip - A Rust library for data dissemination using gossip.
See all my other projects on GitHub.

Photography