Advay Pal
Forward Deployed Engineer at Modal Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdvay Pal is a Forward Deployed Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of hands-on experience building production-grade systems across distributed systems, compilers, cloud infrastructure, and ML applications. He has shipped full‑stack products and customer-facing solutions at Applied Intuition and now applies that blend of deep systems expertise and product sensibility at Modal Labs. His research and teaching roles at Stanford—where he created the university's first class on Transformers and worked on the TACO tensor algebra compiler—underscore a strong bridge between cutting‑edge research and practical engineering. Early work on the Zilliqa blockchain core shows he’s contributed to a high-throughput public ledger, improving backend stability and contract storage handling. He also has a track record of mentoring and building developer communities from leading NUS Hackers to TA roles, and frequently collaborates directly with customers, sales, and recruiting to turn technical vision into shipped outcomes. Practical, curious, and cross-disciplinary, he thrives where compiler-level performance, distributed systems, and applied ML meet real-world product constraints.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at National University of SingaporeThe Heritage School, KolkataMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Github Skills (7)
json-rpc10
c-language10
zig10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
unix-socket9
socket9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Zilliqa/Zilliqa
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 15 days
Contributions summary:Advay contributed to the core backend functionality of the Zilliqa blockchain platform. Their work involved implementing server-side logic, including methods for fetching and updating state values using JSON-RPC. They integrated with the contract storage, adding functionalities like fetching and updating contract states, and incorporated data conversion utilities. The user also focused on fixing bugs and improving the overall stability of the server-side components.
blockchain-platformzilliqablockchainscalehigh-throughput
advaypal/TETRIS
Feb 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
cssjavascripthtml5tetris-clone
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