Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Built a Defi startup with expertise in liquid staking on chains like Avalanche, Solana
• Implemented one-of-a-kind cross-chain message passing using the Threshold Signature Scheme for Multi-party Computation using P2P communication
• https://xtake.medium.com/announcing-xtake-finance-liquid-staking-on-avalanche-707f42d727f4
• Startup acquired by https://persistence.one/

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022 · 7 mos · United States

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021 · 9 mos · Ontario, Canada

• Core contributor to Polkadot Golang client
• Projects:
• Implement online pruning of state tries - Allowed node to be storage efficient and saved TBs of disk space
• Parallel Merkle Trie Hash computation - 10x improvement in hashing speed
• Implement Peer scoring to prevent connections to malicious nodes
• PR: https://github.com/ChainSafe/gossamer/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AarijitAD

Oct 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Speaker at GopherCon Russia '21
• Improved transactional throughput of Dgraph’s vector clock by implementing hybrid logical timestamping using a consensus algorithm (RAFT)
• Improved performance of live loading of data into the Dgraph cluster using intelligent batching of data and conflict detection at the client end
• Benchmarked and optimized RAFT consensus algorithm in Dgraph for faster writes
• Implemented authorization layer using Abstract syntax trees for GraphlQL layer

May 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Projects:
• Built Cohesity’s High performance, strongly consistent, distributed NoSQL data store, which was used to store and search all filesystem-related metadata using RocksDB and Lucene.
• Scaled the platform to provide search and recovery of up to 5 billion documents and improved indexing performance through incremental indexing for multiple backup objects.
• Added ransomware detection capabilities based on filesystem metadata changes across snapshots
• Implemented NTFS filesystem metadata parser that reduced the indexing time of NTFS volumes by 60%
• Impact:
• The NTFS indexer was one of the fastest in the industry and helped the company land multiple deals

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Projects:
• Developed a FUSE-based filesystem to provide a single disk view of multiple differencing VHDx disk files
• Built a library to parse LDM disk to support mounting of LDM volume
• Impact:
• Worked on multiple crucial projects that directly impacted customers and helped companies to get new deals and retain existing customers
• I enjoyed working with Amazing mentors and decided to continue full-time after my Post graduation

Jul 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• First entrepreneurial attempt - Outstation cab ride service