Prakash Moorthy
Principal Blockchain Security Engineer at Circle
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolPrakash Moorthy is a Principal Blockchain Security Engineer based in Beaverton, Oregon with eight years of experience at the nexus of blockchain, confidential computing, and distributed systems. He has translated deep academic research—PhD-level work on erasure codes and distributed storage from IISc and postdoctoral projects at MIT—into practical protocols and patents, and has led secure federated learning and governance efforts at Intel Labs. As an independent consultant he architected RLNC-based protocol enhancements for Solana and now drives blockchain security at Circle, combining protocol design with hands-on implementation. Known for bridging theory and production, he has a track record of mentoring teams, shipping enterprise-grade privacy-preserving systems, and turning novel cryptographic and coding techniques into deployable infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at College of Engineering Trivandrum
Github Skills (34)
chain10
legaltech10
integrity9
blockchain9
dlt9
corda9
smart-contracts9
governance8
confidential8
cpp7
compatibility6
confidentiality6
sgx6
typescript6
javascript6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
prakashngit/private-data-objects
Mar 2019 - Apr 2024
The Private Data Objects lab provides technology for confidentiality-preserving, off-chain smart contracts.
Contributions:1 PR, 174 pushes, 55 branches in 5 years 2 months
confidentialityblockchainchainsmart-contractsoff-chain
prakashngit/pdo-contracts
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 8 branches, 1 tag in 6 months
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