Arijit Das
CEO & Founder at Datadash
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolArijit Das is a CEO, founder and protocol engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and next-generation blockchain analytics from Dubai. He has led and exited a DeFi startup focused on liquid staking and novel cross-chain MPC-based messaging, and now runs Datadash to bring analytics to emerging blockchain ecosystems. His technical pedigree includes core contributions to ChainSafe’s Polkadot Go client (gossamer) and performance work at Dgraph and Cohesity, where he implemented storage-efficient pruning, parallel Merkle hashing, and consensus optimizations. Comfortable shipping both low-level protocol changes and developer-facing resiliency fixes, he has hands-on experience across backend engineering, DevOps and production-grade testing. Notably, his work improved node storage efficiency by terabytes and delivered a 10x hashing speedup in Polkadot client components—showing a knack for impactful, systems-level performance wins. He combines entrepreneurial grit with deep distributed-systems craftsmanship and an active open-source footprint.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Github Skills (20)
transaction10
transactional10
command-line-interface10
go10
blockchain10
command-line10
cli10
testing9
container9
wasm-pack9
rust-wasm9
tendermint9
golang9
polkadot8
polkadot-js8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ChainSafe/gossamer
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
🕸️ Go Implementation of the Polkadot Host
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:578 reviews, 69 commits, 113 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Arijit implemented a priority queue using a heap data structure and integrated it into the transaction processing logic. They fixed lint issues and addressed go module configurations. Further contributions included generating test configurations from code by removing and replacing test toml files and implementing time-based batch processing of transaction messages.
golangsubstratehostp2pblockchain
akash-network/node
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
Source code for Akash node, a secure, transparent, and peer-to-peer cloud computing network
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 23 commits, 39 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Arijit primarily focused on making the `akash-network/node` project more robust and user-friendly by addressing issues related to the command-line interface (CLI) and end-to-end tests. Their contributions included fixing the owner flag for the CLI, restoring inventory on cancel reservation, and ensuring that the order attributes match the provider config. They also upgraded the cosmos-sdk to the latest release and added a test for cosmos-sdk context flags. These changes indicate a strong understanding of the project's core functionality and its operational aspects.
containersgolangsecureexchangetransparent
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