Manu Dhundi
Software Engineer at Aptos Labs
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolManu Dhundi is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, currently working on scaling a Layer 1 blockchain at Aptos Labs in Palo Alto. His background spans distributed databases at LinkedIn, core data services and replication performance at Couchbase, and embedded/firmware-networking work at Qualcomm and Philips, giving him deep systems and concurrency expertise. At Aptos he has contributed to executor benchmarks and sharded execution, adding gRPC integration and lazy transaction refactors for a widely followed L1 project. He also explored founding a startup, gaining hands-on product, prototyping, and fundraising experience that complements his engineering depth. Known for shipping robust, production-grade infrastructure, he brings a pragmatic approach to complex performance and consistency challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Master's Degree at Columbia UniversityB.Tech Electrical & Electronics, B.Tech Electrical & Electronics at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (14)
smart-contracts10
move10
rust10
blockchain10
performance-monitoring9
grpc9
performance-measurement9
concurrency9
distributed-systems9
performance-analytics9
performance-monitor9
performance-analysis9
performance-tuning9
aptos8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aptos-labs/aptos-core
Jul 2023 - Jan 2026
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 294 reviews, 36 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Manu's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Aptos blockchain's executor benchmark and sharded execution capabilities. They implemented commands to generate and test connected groups of transactions and made improvements to handle total supply within the sharded executor. The user also added GRPC communication for sharded execution and integrated the remote sharded executor with the executor benchmark. Finally, they refactored the code to allow for lazy transactions.
blockchainblockchain-networksmart-contractsaptos
couchbaselabs/dcp-documentation
Apr 2015 - Feb 2018
couchbase unified protocol for replication
Contributions:59 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 2 years 11 months
couchbasereplication
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