Anshal Shukla is a founding engineer and blockchain protocol specialist with six years of hands-on experience building backend infrastructure and production-grade blockchain clients. Now based in the UK, he has worked on core Ethereum tooling—contributing to the widely used Erigon implementation and improving the Bor consensus engine to address race conditions, finality, and RPC robustness. He spent two years at Polygon Labs and was a Protocol Fellow at the Ethereum Foundation, blending research-grade protocol work with pragmatic engineering. A BITS Pilani junior in Electronics and Instrumentation (minor in Finance & Management), he pairs hardware-rooted analytical training with strong software delivery instincts. Notably, his contributions span both research roles (NTU) and fast-moving startups, showing an unusual mix of academic collaboration and startup founding experience for his stage.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier https://docs.erigon.tech
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:31 reviews, 33 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Anshal contributed significantly to the `erigon` repository, primarily focusing on updates to the Bor consensus engine. Their work involved modifying file structures, fixing race conditions in tests, adding Bor fork blocks, enhancing RPC calls, and addressing issues related to finality and milestones. These changes indicate a focus on improving the Ethereum implementation's functionality and consistency.
coala provides a unified command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.
Contributions:2 PRs, 176 pushes, 19 branches in 3 months
clilinterlintcommand-line-interfacelinting
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