Harsha Goli
Senior Associate
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolHarsha Goli is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience, currently focused on building resilient, secure back-end systems for capital markets at BNY. He brings deep Java and Spring Boot expertise, plus practical knowledge of Kafka, REST APIs and CI/CD, honed across trading and regulatory platforms where reliability and data security are paramount. An active contributor to notable open-source Lightning Network projects, he’s implemented routing hints and HTLC upgrades that improve private channel usability and testing infrastructure for LND and Loop. Comfortable in both backend and occasional frontend roles, he combines hands-on coding with stakeholder collaboration in Agile teams. Technically self-described as “a cyborg,” he blends automation-first engineering with an appetite for crypto and payments infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at SR Engineering College High School MPC, High School MPC at Narayana Junior College , NallakuntaHigh School , High School at Aryabhatta Concept SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of North Texas
Telugu, English, Hindi
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Github Skills (30)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
lightning-network10
peer-to-peer10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
go10
api10
cryptography10
protocols10
backend10
testing9
command-line-interface9
kubernetes9
python9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
lightninglabs/loop
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Lightning Loop: A Non-Custodial Off/On Chain Bridge
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:88 reviews, 23 commits, 21 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Harsha primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `loop` application, specifically regarding the "loop in" and "loop out" features. Their contributions include implementing a "force" flag to bypass confirmation prompts and adding route hints for private channels. They also refactored the code to accommodate the new HTLC version. These changes suggest an effort to improve the user experience and overall functionality.
bridgeblockchainlightningon-chainloop
lightningnetwork/lnd
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Harsha primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) by exposing functionalities related to routing hints for Go users, specifically allowing them to construct hop hints. They also made infrastructure-related contributions by adding a security key to a script. Furthermore, the user modified the testing harness to export backend configuration attributes, and also surface the bitcoin backend RPC credentials.
cryptographypaymentsprotocoldaemonlightning
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