Jaynti Kanani
Founder CEO at Morphic
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolJaynti Kanani is a founder and CEO with 13 years of engineering experience, best known as a co-founder of Polygon (Matic) and currently leading Morphic from the UAE. He blends protocol-level blockchain engineering—authoring changes to the Bor consensus, Heimdall validator, and PoS bridge contracts—with developer-facing tooling like matic.js and WalletConnect SDKs. Hands-on across Solidity, Go and JavaScript/React Native, he focuses on scalability and crypto‑economic tradeoffs for Layer‑2 systems, especially Plasma/state fraud proofs and UX improvements for DApps. His contributions span forking consensus engines and tweaking genesis/difficulty logic to practical fixes like node-friendly library builds and SDK refactors, reflecting both deep protocol intuition and product sensibility. With a background in data science, he takes a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach and actively collaborates with the Ethereum developer community to drive usable decentralized systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology at Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (63)
consensus10
typescript310
javascript10
solidity10
react-native10
borsh10
testing10
typescript10
react-native-component10
typescript210
cryptocurrencies10
web3-js10
standard-library10
go10
javascripts10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
maticnetwork/heimdall
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
Validator node for Polygon PoS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 88 reviews, 760 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jaynti primarily focused on refactoring the basecoin package into heimdall, which indicates involvement in core codebase adjustments. They also made changes to specific files, including `staker/msg.go`, `contracts/initEthClient.go`, and `cmd/basecli/main.go`, implying work on message structures, Ethereum client initialization, and command-line interface modifications. These changes suggest work on core blockchain functionalities, including validator management and Ethereum integration.
posvalidationethereumdappsproof-of-stake
maticnetwork/bor
May 2019 - Apr 2022
Official repository for the Polygon Blockchain
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 62 reviews, 198 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jaynti's commits focus on modifying the consensus mechanism of the Polygon blockchain. They are forking the clique consensus for Bor and implementing adjustments to the difficulty calculation logic. Furthermore, the commits involve updating the Bor consensus engine and modifying the genesis configuration. These changes indicate a focus on core blockchain protocol development, specifically within the Bor consensus engine.
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