Summary
Prem Prathi is a Protocol Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and blockchain protocol stacks. He has led architecture and delivery for telecom-grade, cloud-native microservices and Web3 projects, translating product requirements into robust designs and guiding teams from research to production. A proven problem-solver, Prem has driven large performance improvements (e.g., order-of-magnitude TPS gains) and implemented low-latency replication and RAFT-based cluster management in C/C++ and Go. He currently contributes to Waku and Status-related projects and is building protocol work at Institute of Free Technology, blending open-source collaboration with product-focused execution. Comfortable diving deep into implementation details while steering architecture, he bridges product and R&D with startup-honed adaptability and technical breadth. Based in Texas (originally from India), he pairs a mechanical-engineering background with a career of shipping complex networking and protocol systems.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B-Tech Mechanical Engineering, B-Tech Mechanical Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu