Abdul Rashid

Founding engineer and engineering lead at Reclaim Protocol.

Work spans product and infrastructure, from the experience people use to the systems that keep it running.

Outside work, I explore spatial computing, especially tangible user interfaces that connect physical objects with digital systems. Current interests include AR, projection mapping, and computing beyond the screen.

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Selected projects

Popcorn

Read why we built it Source code

An open-source browser cloud built for scale, security, and performance.

Browser fleets scale from 10 to 10,000 pods, with a live view designed for phones. Touch, typing, gestures, and reconnection make remote sessions feel like a local browser.

Built the regional fleet and mobile viewer together, keeping browsers warm for fast allocation and adding capacity as demand grows. Sessions combine end-to-end encryption, confidential hardware, and hardware attestation for a verifiable browser environment.

30-day snapshot

1 October 2026

Browser sessions: 529,739
Browser hours: 30,603
Median allocation: 643 ms

Playfield

Explore Playfield Why I’m building it

An iPhone, a projector, and a wall that plays back.

A spatial computing experiment that turns a wall into games controlled by your hands. Defend a city, cook imaginary soup, or draw in the air. The phone tracks your hands and runs the game; the projector brings it into the room.

Playing Meteor Keeper on a wall with hand tracking in Playfield — Meteor Keeper, one of the games in the playground.

All projects →AI-agent research, Sentilytics, and Tap Tap ML.

Blog

Why I’m building Playfield

From EyeToy with friends to games on a wall. A story about the joy of playing with your body.

Can you leave your agent alone for ten hours?

Building evaluation harnesses that let AI agents work with more autonomy.

All posts →Browser clouds, faster mobile proofs, and notes from building.

Experience

Reclaim Protocol (YC W21)

Nov 2023–Present

Full-time

Founding Engineer: Jan 2026–Present · Remote
Engineering Lead: May 2024–Present
Software Engineer: Nov 2023–May 2024

Work spans the full stack: native and web SDKs, developer tools, verification agents, and the infrastructure behind them. Led projects from implementation through evaluation and production operations.

Led the Reclaim app’s migration from React Native to Flutter, alongside work on mobile SDKs, web SDKs, and developer tools.
Built Popcorn’s browser cloud and mobile live viewer, bringing together regional fleet operations, elastic scaling, end-to-end encryption, and hardware attestation.
Built and evaluated AI agents for creating verification flows. An autoresearch harness compares models and approaches, guides experiments, and fine-tunes smaller models, reducing agent cost by 97% and making execution 30% faster.
Led the gnark migration, moving mobile proof generation from a WebView to native Go. Average proof time fell from about 40 seconds to 4–5 seconds.
Built Glassbreak, a Slack-based system for managing cloud permissions and tracking access for audits.
Built internal tools for engineering and operations: an AI review agent, a log viewer, and triage and Snitch bots for investigating production issues.

Full experience →SaaS Labs, Amazon, Procedure, and earlier roles.

Let’s talk

Interested in something I’m building, have an idea to share, or just want to chat about something nerdy? Say hello.

abdulrreshamwala@gmail.com

Abdul Rashid.