Ratan Kaliani
Member Of Technical Staff at Decagon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRatan Kaliani is a Member of Technical Staff in the San Francisco Bay Area with 7 years of experience building crypto and systems software. As a founding engineer at Succinct he built SP1, a high-performance, fully open-source zkVM to prove program execution with zero-knowledge cryptography, and previously contributed to core wallet and key-management infrastructure at Coinbase. He blends applied cryptography and low-level systems engineering—spanning zkVMs, DeFi research at Polychain, and real-time biometric proofs from earlier Cisco work—while focusing on production-grade delivery. At UC Berkeley he led Blockchain at Berkeley as President and directed the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, managing 90+ members and governance for top DeFi projects, reflecting strong technical leadership and community-building. He pairs an EECS degree and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology from UC Berkeley with hands-on startup experience as an Accel Scholar.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) at University of California, BerkeleyCertificate of Entrepreneurship & Technology, Certificate of Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringComputer Science, Computer Science at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (168)
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cryptocurrency10
p2p10
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solidity10
modular10
fantom10
secp256k110
golang10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
succinctlabs/rsp
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
A minimal implementation of ZKPs of Ethereum block execution using Reth. Supports both Ethereum and OP Stack.
Contributions:104 reviews, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
succinctlabs/sp1-helios
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
On-chain Ethereum light client built with SP1
Contributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 28 PRs in 7 months
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