Akhilesh Singhania
Senior Software Engineer at Anza
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhilesh Singhania is a senior software engineer and engineering manager based in Zurich with over a decade of experience building high-performance distributed systems, TCP/IP network stacks, and operating system components. He led a team to launch the Internet Computer and has held leadership roles at DFINITY and Pagoda, combining hands-on coding with team and product ownership. Earlier work at Solarflare and Oracle includes kernel-bypass networking (OpenOnload, SolarCapture), DPDK extensions, and real-time data processing frameworks that improved observability and reduced operational costs. He contributes to open-source blockchain clients such as NEAR’s nearcore, focusing on backend correctness, gas accounting, and trie memory optimizations. Known for translating research-grade OS and networking ideas into production systems, he brings both academic rigor from ETH Zurich research and practical deployment experience. He pairs deep low-level expertise with a track record of mentoring teams and shipping resilient, high-throughput infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (9)
data-structures10
gas-optimization10
rust10
data-structure10
blockchain10
trie10
nearprotocol10
webassembly9
borsh8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
near/nearcore
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:637 reviews, 40 commits, 377 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Akhilesh primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the NEAR Protocol client, focusing on improving code readability, gas cost calculations, and storage-related operations. Their work involved refactoring code to use enums, removing unused parameters, and optimizing memory usage within the trie data structure. They also addressed potential errors within the codebase, further enhancing the stability and efficiency of the NEAR Protocol client.
nearprotocolblockchainrustwebassembly
akhi3030/agave
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Contributions:1 PR, 436 pushes, 151 branches in 1 year
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