Manthan Davé
Director, Wallets at Palisade Financial SAS
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolManthan Davé is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems across fintech and blockchain domains. He founded Palisade to provide regulated digital asset custody for Web3 developers and European clients, drawing on hands‑on engineering from roles at Ava Labs (Coreth/EVM) and Ripple. Technically fluent in backend systems and distributed architectures, he has contributed to notable open-source projects like avalanchego and coreth—adding gzip server optimizations and parallelized atomic operation indexing to improve scalability. Previously he led identity and access initiatives and cloud-native services at Capital One, and has a track record of shipping secure, production-grade platforms. Based in the UK, he combines operator-level product instincts with deep implementation experience, often surfacing practical performance wins that aren’t obvious from product specs alone.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering at University of Greenwich
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (16)
go10
atomic10
ethereum10
blockchain10
atomics10
trie10
database-management9
apidoc9
api9
http8
git8
version-control8
architecture8
networking8
architectures8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ava-labs/coreth
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Code and wrapper to extract Ethereum blockchain functionalities without network/consensus, for building custom blockchain services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:170 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Manthan primarily worked on implementing atomic operation indexing functionality within the coreth repository, which is designed for extracting Ethereum blockchain features. Their contributions involved implementing and refining the indexedAtomicTrie, which interacts with the trie database to store and manage atomic operations. Key changes included refactoring the indexer, fixing height updates, and optimizing for parallel processing.
blockchainblockchain-serviceconsensusethereum
ava-labs/avalanchego
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Go implementation of an Avalanche node.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:323 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Manthan contributed to the `avalanchego` repository by discarding unused parameters within the `network/throttler.go` file and merging a development branch into `AV-502`, which included substantial changes to the configuration files. Furthermore, they added a gzip handler wrapper across several API services, including health, IPCS, admin, metrics, and info, and integrated gzip compression into the server infrastructure for potentially improved performance. The user demonstrated a focus on improving the codebase and expanding the project's scalability.
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