Andrew Kirillov is a founding engineer and UC Berkeley M.E.T. graduate with nine years of hands-on experience building cryptography-forward distributed systems and production infrastructure for top crypto firms. He’s contributed core backend features to high-profile open-source projects like paradigmxyz/reth, enhancing Ethereum networking and documentation in Rust, and has held roles across Renegade, Paradigm, and Polychain focusing on custody, ops, and crypto infrastructure. Combining EECS technical depth with business training, he moves fluidly between low-level protocol work and product-facing systems engineering. Based in San Francisco, he’s driven by empowering others and translating complex crypto primitives into reliable, contributor-friendly implementations.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ward Melville Senior High School
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science + Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science + Business Administration at UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program
Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:83 reviews, 10 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `reth` repository by implementing and documenting core backend features related to the Ethereum protocol. Their work focused on the network layer, including transaction management, request handling, and bandwidth monitoring. The user also added code blocks and restructured documentation for the `network` crate, enhancing the project's modularity and contributor experience.
Contributions:64 PRs, 143 pushes, 27 branches in 3 months
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