Akash Khosla
Advising Engineering at Stealth
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Khosla is an engineering advisor and builder with a decade of experience spanning crypto infrastructure, secure systems research, and startup founding. He co-founded Evmos and Blockchain at Berkeley, helped secure institutional crypto assets as a backend engineer at Anchorage, and contributed systems research at Berkeley RISE Lab. Comfortable across DevOps, backend APIs, and protocol engineering, he has hands-on experience automating blockchain testnets and CI/CD workflows—authoring genesis validation scripts for the Evmos testnet. Based in the United States, he blends product-facing leadership with low-level systems rigor and a track record of shipping auditable, security-minded solutions. An underrated thread in his background is steady involvement in open-source and conference organization, showing both technical depth and community-building instincts.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Github Skills (15)
cd10
net10
sh10
automation10
jq10
script10
automations10
bash10
bitcoin-testnet10
shell10
scripting10
cicd10
blockchain9
github9
cosmos8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
evmos/testnets
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Evmos testnets repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:162 reviews, 60 commits, 226 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Akash primarily focused on automating and validating the creation and use of genesis files within the Evmos testnet environment. They developed and modified shell scripts, specifically `validate-gentxs.sh` and `make-genesis.sh`, to streamline the process of testing and validating genesis files, including adding genesis accounts, collecting gentxs and validating genesis. The user also worked on setting up the CI/CD pipeline and incorporating the use of `jq` and other command-line tools within the scripts.
testnetsblockchaintestnetcosmosevmos
khoslaventures/quantum-compressor
May 2019 - May 2019
Simulating a 1-D Ising chain with compressed quantum matchgates
Contributions:43 commits, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 10 days
quantum-computingchainquantumcompressedising
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