Noah Gundotra
Software Engineer at SpaceX
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoah Gundotra is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance systems and developer tooling, currently working on Starship at SpaceX. He has deep hands-on expertise in Solana’s ecosystem—contributing to the flagship solana repo (explorer UI and account decoding) and co-creating a concurrent Merkle tree used for account compression and scalable data availability in the Solana VM. His background spans full-stack development, Rust and TypeScript package maintenance, and applied ML research from internships at Facebook and Berkeley Lab to RL environments for LLMs at the Solana Foundation. Noah pairs production-grade engineering with research instincts—authoring a drafted whitepaper on concurrent Merkle structures and shipping npm/crate libraries that power blockchain data efficiency. He also has quantitative experience from Goldman Sachs’ equities teams, bringing rigorous analytics and performance-minded design to distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves between low-level algorithm design and user-facing UX improvements with equal facility.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyLos Gatos High
Github Skills (17)
algorithm10
algorithms10
concurrent-programming10
anchor10
data-structure10
merkle-tree10
solana10
blockchain10
data-structures10
rust10
javascript9
cryptography9
react9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
solana-labs/solana-program-library
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
A collection of Solana programs maintained by Solana Labs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 157 reviews, 55 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Noah primarily contributed to the `solana-program-library` repository by implementing a concurrent Merkle Tree implementation. This included the development of core functionalities, such as initialization, appending, proving, and setting leaves within the Merkle Tree structure. The user's work involved interactions with related modules like `changelog`, `error`, `hash`, `node`, and `path`, indicating a deep engagement with the underlying logic of the concurrent Merkle tree. The contributions enable efficient management of data within the Solana environment.
solanarustblockchainon-chainchain
solana-labs/solana
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 9 commits, 31 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Noah primarily contributed to the explorer component of the Solana blockchain project. They added functionality for decoding Anchor program arguments and account data, and also integrated warnings for potentially flagged accounts. Furthermore, the user worked on UI improvements, including adding an "account does not exist" message and refining formatting. The user also made changes to the supply page and integrated the Account Compression Program.
securescalablesolanamarketplacesdapp
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