Samvid Dharanikota is a Senior Compiler Engineer with 10 years of experience building compilers, verification tools, and program-analysis frameworks that improve security and performance for real-world systems. Trained at Carnegie Mellon and with research tenures at Microsoft Research and CMU’s PASTA lab, he led development of Celestial—a verification tool that helped audit high-value Ethereum contracts—and later built fuzzing and verification tooling for concurrent Java and smart-contract analysis. His work spans formal methods (Dafny, model checking), compiler-driven query optimizations for big-data engines, and practical production tools that have reduced query times by up to 50% and verified contracts securing millions of dollars. Based in California, he combines deep programming-language theory with hands-on engineering at Efficient Computer to ship developer-facing compilers and security tooling. Notably, he bridges academia and industry, repeatedly turning peer-reviewed research into open-source tools used in practice.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Abu Dhabi Indian School, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Master of Science - MS Information Networking, Master of Science - MS Information Networking at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Contributions:5 PRs, 35 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 6 months
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Samvid Dharanikota - Senior Compiler Engineer at Efficient Computer