Richard Patel
Software Engineer For ClearanceRecruiter.com at SRN
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Patel is a software engineer with nine years of experience building secure, platform-independent applications for defense and intelligence clients at ClearanceRecruiter.com, combining strong C/C++, Java, Python and MATLAB skills with hands-on research and user-facing product work. He has a proven track record in low-level systems and cryptography—contributing eBPF support to Capstone and radare2, improving Secp256k1/Ed25519 in Trust Wallet, and optimizing native modules and build systems for projects like Nimiq and Firedancer. Comfortable across backend, build and some frontend domains, he has shipped tooling and plugins for high-profile open-source projects including Solana and Capstone, demonstrating a pragmatic blend of systems engineering and security awareness. With an M.Tech in Computer Science and past research experience in pattern recognition and machine learning at Stanford, he brings analytical rigor to production problems. An avid science fiction fan and cosplay enthusiast, he pairs creative curiosity with a disciplined focus on maintainability and cross-platform performance.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science at The State University of New York
Github Skills (46)
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capstone10
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cryptocurrency10
javas10
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
firedancer-io/firedancer
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana validator software.
Role in this project:
Backend & Build Engineer
Backend & Build EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 108 commits, 76 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the build system and backend infrastructure of the Solana validator software. Their work included adding Bazel build rules, refactoring the build system for improved maintainability, and introducing a rule for fuzz testing. The user also integrated external dependencies like numactl and added support for a Grail LLVM toolchain. They focused on improving the build process and ensuring that the project could be built with different compilers and build configurations.
cryptosolanac
trustwallet/wallet-core
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Cross-platform, cross-blockchain wallet library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 70 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the "wallet-core" library, focusing on updating and refactoring the Secp256k1 and Ed25519 cryptography implementations. Their work involved modifying and adding Java Native Interface (JNI) code, specifically within the context of public and private key management. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the core cryptographic functionality of the wallet library, likely to enhance security and add support for new cryptographic standards.
blockchaincross-platformbitcoinethereumcrypto
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