Shaurya Arora
Founder at uint256
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShaurya Arora is a founder and Rust-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building user- and developer-first products on Bitcoin and Lightning, blending deep protocol work with polished UX instincts from a prior career as a senior Android lead at Twitter. He designs and ships core infrastructure (Fedimint contributions, Lightning daemon RPC/database extensions) and consumer features alike, and has built decentralized finance primitives such as a decentralized stable asset and off-chain monitoring bots at uint256. A polyglot comfortable in Rust, Go, Solidity, Java/Kotlin and JavaScript, he’s also contributed to high-profile open-source projects including Material-UI and lnd, bridging front-end theming fixes with backend protocol changes. Known for pushing simplicity in architecture and mentoring teams, he brings a rare combination of mobile UX empathy and low-level systems rigor to product-first crypto engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasHigh School Diploma Science with Computer Science, High School Diploma Science with Computer Science at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
react-components10
theming10
lightning-network10
protocol-buffers10
system-design10
react-component10
cryptocurrency10
system10
material-design10
rpc10
go10
react10
css9
blockchain9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 104 commits, 126 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shaurya primarily contributed to the Material UI React component library, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to button styling and theming. They implemented the `textTransform` theme-level key for buttons, allowing for global and component-specific style overrides. Further contributions involved refactoring, like updating function names in the context-pure mixin, and updating unit tests. The user also updated documentation and example projects to reflect theming changes.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
lightningnetwork/lnd
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 3 PRs, 52 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shaurya primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Lightning Network Daemon (lnd), focusing on extending RPC methods and data structures. Their work involved adding a "memo" field to the `OpenChannelRequest`, `ListChannelsResponse`, and associated database schema for storing channel metadata. These changes included modifications to protocol buffer definitions, Go code generation, and database interactions, demonstrating a focus on core Lightning Network protocol implementation and data persistence. The user also implemented input validation to restrict the memo field length.
cryptographypaymentsprotocoldaemonlightning
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