Shivam Sharma
Senior Protocol Engineer at Katana
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShivam Sharma is a Senior Protocol Engineer with five years of hands-on experience building and hardening blockchain infrastructure across Ethereum (Geth/Bor), Cosmos-SDK, and OP-stack ecosystems. He co-founded Elder Labs to build a Universal Gateway for rollups, where he bridged Cosmos-SDK and OP-stack implementations by aligning low-level primitives like hashing, signatures, and state transitions. At Polygon he focused on stability-critical work—reorg eviction, block production optimization, telemetry and chaos benchmarking—and contributed to high-profile repos such as maticnetwork/bor and heimdall, adding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry observability. Comfortable "close to the metal," he enjoys tackling consensus, execution, and dev-tooling challenges and has shipped community tools like a Go-based Solidity compiler and a minimal Go blockchain. Based in Karnataka, India, he combines startup-building experience with production-grade protocol engineering at the intersection of scalability and decentralization.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyUndergraduation, Undergraduation at Modern International SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School
French
Github Skills (11)
tendermint10
go10
prometheus10
ethereum10
blockchain10
daap9
borsh9
opentelemetry9
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maticnetwork/bor
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Official repository for the Polygon Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 128 reviews, 233 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Shivam primarily contributed to the `maticnetwork/bor` repository, focused on the Polygon Blockchain. Their work involved adding and modifying features related to Prometheus integration within the server. The user added a Prometheus flag to the bor-cli and implemented Prometheus server functionality and also improved the integration, which likely improved monitoring and performance analysis.
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maticnetwork/heimdall
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Validator node for Polygon PoS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 20 reviews, 24 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shivam primarily contributed to the backend functionality and infrastructure of the Polygon PoS validator node. They fixed a checkpoint-related CLI issue and added scripts for converting WAL files to and from JSON format. Furthermore, the user addressed a height-related bug, indicating their involvement in core blockchain logic. They also made improvements by introducing OpenTelemetry tracing, thus contributing to the project's observability.
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