Summary
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