Shaswat Gupta
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShaswat Gupta is a Software Development Engineer based in Bengaluru with five years of hands-on experience building backend systems, web apps, and Android clients across finance and crypto domains. He has shipped production tooling at Morgan Stanley that improved batch rule execution efficiency and system stability, and now contributes to Amazon while continuing deep open-source work. As an active contributor and mentor on bcoin—a widely used JavaScript Bitcoin library—he implemented BIP157/BIP158 support, neutrino client functionality, and headers-first sync, strengthening privacy and sync performance. His background spans C#, ASP.NET, TypeScript, Kubernetes, native Android, and protocol buffers, enabling cross-stack solutions that reduced development and resolution times by double-digit percentages. Notably, he combined cryptography-aware engineering with usability improvements at Cypherock and has transcribed 500+ Bitcoin videos for Chaincode Labs, reflecting a rare mix of protocol-level expertise and community-driven content work.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.6, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.6 at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur
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blockchain10
testing10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bcoin-org/bcoin
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 16 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shaswat primarily focused on adding and testing features related to BIP157, a Bitcoin block filter protocol. Their contributions included implementing functions for handling responses to client requests, adding new packets for BIP157, and writing tests for the newly implemented GCS (Golomb Coded Sets) filters. The changes touched upon the core Golomb and BasicFilter classes, as well as modifications to the peer, net, and pool components to facilitate the BIP157 functionality.
miningbrowsersnode-jsjavascriptwallet
masterchief164/bcoin
Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers
Contributions:70 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
browsersnode-jsjavascriptcryptocurrencynodejs
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