Mankena Venkatesh
Blockchain Developer at Open Source
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolMankena Venkatesh is a blockchain developer with 11 years of software engineering experience, combining deep Solidity DApp expertise with backend protocol work on Cosmos and Polygon components. He has built award-winning hackathon projects—a cross-platform wallet (Panacea) and crowd-lending and verifiable-resume DApps—and is ConsenSys-certified in blockchain development. His contributions to notable open-source repos include backend logic and validator-related work for gravity-bridge and Heimdall, reflecting comfort with cross-chain asset movement and staking primitives. Prior roles at Injective Labs, Matic Network and ConsenSys complement a strong foundations in Java microservices, Cassandra, messaging and containerization from tenures at Intuit and Cisco. Venkatesh is equally adept at debugging smart-contract state and designing zero-knowledge role-based access systems, a less obvious blend of cryptography and pragmatic engineering. Based in Bengaluru, he maintains an active GitHub portfolio that demonstrates both research-led prototypes and production-focused protocol improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
6.71, Information Technology, 6.71, Information Technology at City, State %/ CGPAM.Sc; 2012 B.I.T.S, Tech) INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008; Pilani, M.Sc; 2012 B.I.T.S, Tech) INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008; Pilani at Pilani CampusMaster of Science (MSc), Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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Github Skills (6)
cosmos-sdk10
go10
blockchain10
grpc10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maticnetwork/heimdall
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Validator node for Polygon PoS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 4 reviews, 363 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Mankena's commits primarily involve modifications to the `test/keeper_test.go` file, indicating work related to the Heimdall validator node for Polygon PoS. The code changes involve testing functionalities for the staking module. These changes point towards backend development tasks, focusing on the core logic and functionality of the Polygon PoS validator node.
posvalidationethereumdappsproof-of-stake
cosmos/gravity-bridge
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
A CosmosSDK application for moving assets on and off of EVM based, POW chains
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Mankena primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `cosmos/gravity-bridge` repository, focusing on implementing and refining features related to batch fees, slashing conditions, and validator set management. Their work involved creating new gRPC endpoints for fetching batch fee information and optimizing slashing logic. They also made modifications to the validator set creation process and addressed bugs.
ethereumblockchainevmchainspow
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