Prashant Yadav
Technical Lead at Chainlink Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashant Yadav is a Technical Lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area who transitioned from 16 years in traditional tech to architecting blockchain infrastructure and bringing Chainlink’s products to all blockchains. He blends deep systems and distributed-systems experience from roles at Google, Microsoft, and DoorDash with hands-on backend work in prominent open-source projects like Chainlink’s decentralized oracle node, where he focused on refactoring, maintainability, and critical CBOR parsing improvements. Known for shipping large-scale platforms—proactive intent prediction at Google Search and fulfillment services at DoorDash—he excels at turning research-grade models and complex services into production-ready systems. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he pairs platform-level strategy with code-level ownership, mentoring teams through cross-disciplinary challenges.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BTech IT, BTech IT at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad 
Github Skills (9)
golang10
chainlink10
go10
refactoring10
blockchain10
oracles9
solidity9
oracle9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1297 reviews, 58 commits, 194 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Prashant primarily focused on refactoring and code reorganization tasks within the Chainlink repository. Their contributions involved moving configuration files, model definitions, and other related files to more appropriate locations. This included changes related to core functionalities like CBOR parsing and improving code maintainability. The user also touched on various aspects of the system, including testing and updating the configuration.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
smartcontractkit/chainlink-solana
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:65 reviews, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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