Anika R.

CEO

New York City, New York, United States7 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led decentralization initiatives for Base Chain at Coinbase.
Achieved 3.75x increase in network throughput.
Developed key management infrastructure for Ethereum Layer-2.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Blockchain Product Lead with extensive experience in smart contracts and key management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical Product ManagementBlockchainSmart ContractsKey ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

EthereumScalabilityDecentralizationSecurityOpen-Source SoftwareSoftware DesignCryptographyResearchPublic SpeakingJavaApplied MathematicsMatlabMicrosoft OfficeInternet of ThingsC

Experience

7 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs

Current Experience

Coinbase

5 roles

Product Lead, Base Chain

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Stepped into a Product Management role for Base Chain, leading key initiatives across decentralization, scaling and block-building innovation.
Charted Base's path to Stage 1 Decentralization, by launching fault proofs and decentralizing upgrades via a Security Council.
Facilitated a 3.75x increase in network throughput, from 20 to 75 Mgas/s, making Base the most scaled Layer-2 solution.
Product lead for key chain innovation projects like 10x faster block times (from 2s to 200ms), making Base one of the fastest blockchains.

Technical Product ManagementBlockchainEthereumScalabilityDecentralization

Senior Smart Contract Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

Founding engineer for Base, an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain network, developed by Coinbase. Responsible for setting up all of Base's key management infrastructure and smart contract upgrade processes.

Smart ContractsKey ManagementOpen-Source Software

Smart Contract Engineer

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022 · 6 mos

Developing smart contracts (code deployed and run directly on a blockchain) for Coinbase

Smart ContractsSecurity

Software Engineer

Jun 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs

Building cold storage key management systems at Coinbase, using multiparty computation (MPC) and threshold signature schemes.

Software DesignCryptographySoftware DevelopmentKey Management

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Setting up payment rails for Japan integration.

Facebook

Performance and Capacity Engineer, Intern

Jun 2018 – Sep 2018 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, CA

Building tools to detect causes of unexpected increases in Facebook’s global network traffic by fine-grained attribution. Improved pipeline for performance analysis of Facebook’s massive server fleet.

Propel, inc

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

Building software for low-income Americans, who are often overlooked by the tech industry.
Full stack developer for the FreshEBT app - Propel's core product which helps food stamp recipients manage finances.

Pear vc

Lead Project Engineer

Oct 2016 – Jun 2017 · 8 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Stanford hci group

Research Intern in CS Undergrad Research Internship Program

Jun 2016 – Sep 2016 · 3 mos · Stanford, CA

Developing technology called MyriadHub to create email templates and extract data from responses. Allows users to send several personalized emails simultaneously. Areas of focus include Machine Learning to predict templates and extract data, web development, and building user intuition for the technology.

Iotas, inc.

Summer Internship

Jun 2015 – Sep 2015 · 3 mos · Portland, OR

Work with IOT and smart homes. Worked on geofencing technology to turn on the smart home when residents are within some radius.

Intel corporation

Summer Intern Intel Research Labs

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · Hillsboro, OR

Derived contextual data from brain sensors. Collected data from a wearable Muse(c) headband and analyzed the data to determine relationship of brain signals to physical actions. Worked on classification of these actions using Machine Learning methods and tools.