Prasanna Gautam
Research Lead, Protocols At Anchorage at Anchorage Digital
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPrasanna Gautam is a research and protocols lead with 17 years of hands-on technical leadership across distributed systems, security, and blockchain infrastructure, currently supporting early-stage cryptographic and protocol innovation at Anchorage. He combines deep systems expertise—from FPGA and LLVM work to HSM design and smart-contract security—with pragmatic software architecture skills in Go, Rust, Clojure and Solidity. At Anchorage he shipped a novel HSM solution, scaled institutional custody and staking operations, and turned multiple hackathon projects into production products. An active open-source contributor, his Kafka work on Secor and Diamond demonstrates a focus on reliable data pipelines and production-grade metrics. Known for blending security-first engineering with developer productivity, he also brings an uncommon background in embedded robotics and compiler backend work that informs his cross-domain problem solving. Based in Seattle, he pairs technical depth with a track record of building teams, governance, and auditable operational controls.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science (Physics Chemistry Mathematics), High School Science (Physics Chemistry Mathematics) at St. Xavier's CollegeNondegree Course Computer Science, Nondegree Course Computer Science at University of ConnecticutBS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Trinity College-Hartford
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Github Skills (22)
python10
testing10
kafka10
java10
javas10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
file-management9
regular-expression9
api8
configuration-management8
zookeeper8
apim8
html6
camera6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/secor
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Secor is a service implementing Kafka log persistence
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Prasanna contributed to the core functionality of the Secor service, particularly focusing on Kafka log persistence. They added features for verifying log files, including argument parsing. Significant work involved implementing a mechanism to upload files at a minute mark based on topic filters and configurations, as well as integrating Protobuf 3.1.0 and Google Timestamp type support. The user also refined the codebase by moving topic filter parsing to class initialization.
sinkloggingopensearchkafka-connectkafka
python-diamond/Diamond
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others). It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Prasanna primarily contributed to improving the Kafka collector within the Diamond metrics collection daemon. They fixed issues related to missing metrics from Kafka controllers by addressing data type discrepancies and handling potential errors. Additionally, the user updated and enhanced the SignalFX handler, introducing the functionality to filter metrics based on regular expressions and providing pep8 fixes. The work involved modifying existing code in the `kafkastat` collector and `signalfx` handler, alongside corresponding test updates.
memorypythonprometheusdiamondmonitoring
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