Ratan Kaliani
Member Of Technical Staff at Decagon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRatan Kaliani is a software engineer with 8 years of experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Decagon. He was a founding engineer at Succinct, where he built SP1, a high-performance open-source zkVM to prove program execution with zero-knowledge cryptography, reflecting deep expertise in cryptography and systems. His background includes leadership roles at Blockchain at Berkeley—scaling a 90+ member organization across education, research, and consulting—and hands-on engineering internships at Coinbase and Polychain, connecting research to production crypto infrastructure. Ratan blends applied research, product-driven engineering, and startup grit, having overseen accelerator programs and shipped blockchain PoCs for enterprise partners. He holds an EECS degree from UC Berkeley and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology, giving him both technical depth and startup fluency. An interesting throughline: he moves fluidly between building core crypto primitives and organizing communities that adopt them, making him effective at both code and coordination.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) at University of California, BerkeleyCertificate of Entrepreneurship & Technology, Certificate of Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringComputer Science, Computer Science at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (121)
tooling10
testing10
cryptocurrency10
smart-contracts10
p2p10
solidity10
modular10
bytecode10
rust10
risc-v10
distributed-systems10
virtual-machine10
ethereum10
blockchain10
shake9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
succinctlabs/op-succinct
Jul 2024 - May 2025
Succinct's Production-Grade Proving Engine for the OP Stack.
Contributions:36 releases, 384 reviews, 598 PRs in 9 months
succinctlabs/blobstreamx
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
Implementation of zero-knowledge proof circuits for Blobstream, Celestia's data availability solution for Ethereum.
Contributions:11 reviews, 154 PRs, 206 pushes in 10 months
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