Sekou Roland
Chief Executive Officer at EVAL
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolSekou Roland is a Princeton student, varsity football player, and founder-CEO with seven years of software and product experience building EVAL, a platform that ranks high school esports athletes and connects them to scholarships and analytic evaluations. He pairs hands-on backend engineering—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Nervos CKB and etcd—with product and growth instincts sharpened by graphic design freelancing and student ambassador work. His technical work has improved blockchain RPCs, network performance, and test reliability in distributed systems, reflecting a focus on performance, correctness, and developer ergonomics. Based in New Jersey, he blends competitive team experience from athletics with startup leadership and community-facing roles in the Princeton Blockchain Club. An avid lifelong learner and open-source contributor, he brings a rare combination of systems-level engineering and user-facing product design to early-stage ventures.
7 years of coding experience
Deerfield Academymiddle school- high school, middle school- high school at The Haverford SchoolHigh School senoir, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, High School senoir, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at Cox Mill High SchoolPrinceton University
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
rpc10
go10
blockchain10
rust10
kubernetes9
networking9
kubernetes-pods9
raft8
databases7
database7
gcc6
memcpy6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
nervosnetwork/ckb
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
The Nervos CKB is a public permissionless blockchain, and the layer 1 of Nervos network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:564 reviews, 7 commits, 348 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sekou primarily focused on back-end development, contributing to the RPC interface by adding functionality to return raw molecule hex bytes for the `get_transaction` method. They also made changes to the network configuration by increasing the maximum stream window size. In addition, the user refactored block filter-related code, improving the efficiency of data retrieval and addressing potential race conditions. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the performance and functionality of the Nervos CKB blockchain.
permissionlessconsensusrustblockchainnervos
etcd-io/etcd
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sekou primarily focused on testing and improving the `etcd` project. Their contributions involved writing and refactoring tests for the `client/pkg/transport` package, with a focus on validating secure endpoints. They also fixed a panic in the `ValidateSecureEndpoints` function and addressed a data race in a watch test. Additionally, the user added a test for `transport/tls.go:ValidateSecureEndpoints()` and refactored an existing test.
etcdcriticalconsensusdistributed-systemreliable
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