Pratik Patil
Protocol Engineer II at Polygon Labs
India
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Top SchoolPratik Patil is a Protocol Engineer II with six years of hands-on experience building and scaling blockchain systems, currently contributing to Polygon Labs from India. He focuses on Ethereum scalability and protocol-level engineering, notably adding author-retrieval logic to Polygon's widely used bor client to ensure correct miner identification in block headers. His background blends academic research at Carnegie Mellon—working on reputation-to-value systems and multi-platform blockchain experiments—with practical production work on Hyperledger Fabric and decentralized government applications. Comfortable across backend systems, Python, Go and smart-contract ecosystems, he brings both research rigor and pragmatic engineering to decentralized infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
School, School at Chavara English Medium SchoolPre-Engineering, Pre-Engineering at Resonance Eduventures LimitedSchool, School at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV)BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai
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Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maticnetwork/bor
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Official repository for the Polygon Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 375 reviews, 192 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Pratik primarily focused on modifying the `bor` blockchain code within the `maticnetwork/bor` repository, specifically related to the Ethereum API. Their main contribution was adding and integrating the `getHeaderWithAuthor` function to correctly identify the miner address within block headers. They modified existing functions like `GetBlockByNumber` and `GetBlockByHash` to utilize the new function. Further refinements included updating the author retrieval logic and addressing minor code issues.
stakingborethereumblockchainmatic
pratikspatil024/erigon
Jul 2023 - Sep 2024
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier
Contributions:56 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
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