Summary
Kaushik Donthi is a software engineer with six years of hands-on experience building blockchain infrastructure, L1 protocols, and cross-chain tooling, currently contributing to BTCS Inc. His background spans Go, Rust, C#, and React, with roles at bloXroute Labs and Proximity Labs where he worked on low-latency networking and an MPC-based multi-chain faucet respectively. He has practical experience in MEV bundle sorting, gas-price logic, and on-chain game-engine development, and earlier work in data pipelines and ML reduced initial ETH price prediction error by 40%. Based in Hollister, CA, he blends research instincts—from computational neuroscience at Penn State and UCLA—with production engineering, often favoring open-source toolchains and pragmatic systems design. A detail that sets him apart is his teaching experience mentoring kids in programming, which informs his ability to explain complex protocols clearly.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Protocol Track, Protocol Track at Polkadot Blockchain Academy
American High School
University of California, Los Angeles