Agnish Ghosh is a contributor-maintainer and Ethereum-focused software engineer with five years of experience building high-performance cryptography and blockchain infrastructure. Based in Kolkata, he currently works at the Ethereum Foundation and with Nimbus/Status as the sole owner of the Peerdas implementation, driving the protocol transition toward Verkle trees and more efficient blob validity for upcoming hard forks. His background spans zk-rollup research, privacy-preserving groups on EVMs, and practical R&D on C-kzg-4844 cryptography optimized for low memory and FFI use across clients. He has a track record of shipping production improvements—from client-level protocol implementations to frontend rendering and crypto-payment integrations—and has led campus and community initiatives like COVID resource tooling and ACM chapters. Notably, he combines deep protocol-level expertise with hands-on engineering, owning end-to-end projects that bridge research and deployment.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, DGPA 8.5, Bachelors of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, DGPA 8.5 at Heritage Institute of Technology
PCM with Computer Science, ICSE (10th) - 93.5% ISC (12th) - 94%, PCM with Computer Science, ICSE (10th) - 93.5% ISC (12th) - 94% at Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata
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