Chirantan Ekbote
Quantitative Developer
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChirantan Ekbote is a quantitative developer with 13 years of software engineering experience across high-performance trading and large-scale tech environments, currently at Quadrature in the UK. He has a deep background at Jump Trading and Google, where he advanced from intern to senior software engineer, building reliable, production-grade systems. His work spans low-latency trading infrastructure and blockchain interoperability—contributing to the widely-referenced Wormhole protocol with fixes and refactors for token bridge contracts and Solana/Terra integrations. Trained at Harvard (Master's) and Ohio State (Bachelor's), he blends rigorous academic foundation with hands-on engineering discipline. Known for improving code quality and test reliability, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a developer who finds elegant fixes for subtle bugs while keeping system performance and correctness front and center.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (7)
rust10
go10
solana10
blockchain10
terra9
solidity9
cosmwasm7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wormhole-foundation/wormhole
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
A reference implementation for the Wormhole blockchain interoperability protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:565 reviews, 169 commits, 94 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chirantan primarily worked on the Wormhole blockchain interoperability protocol, specifically focusing on token bridge contracts. Their commits involved fixing bugs related to fee calculations, enhancing code quality by addressing clippy warnings, and refactoring tests for the token bridge. They also contributed to the Solana and Terra implementations within the Wormhole project.
golangrustblockchaininteroperabilitywormhole
jynnantonix/pvrtex
Oct 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:69 commits in 6 months
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