Sorawit Suriyakarn
CTO And Co-Founder at Band Protocol
Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolSorawit Suriyakarn is a CTO and co-founder with 11 years of engineering experience, leading Band Protocol’s technical direction in blockchain and oracle infrastructure from Bangkok. An MIT-trained software engineer with a perfect academic record and MEng in EECS, he blends research-level rigor with startup execution. His background spans low-latency trading systems at Hudson River Trading, infrastructure at Quora, and mobile and database engine work at Dropbox and MemSQL, giving him deep systems and performance expertise. He contributes to core blockchain tooling—enhancing the widely used cosmos/relayer with path generation flexibility and event subscription improvements—demonstrating hands-on impact in interoperable networks. Known for moving between high-assurance academic settings and production-critical finance and crypto stacks, he’s both a strategic leader and an implementer who still writes core backend code.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), 5.0/5.0, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), 5.0/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thai, English
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Github Skills (12)
command-line10
command-line-interface10
go10
cli10
cosmos-sdk9
blockchain8
chain8
event-handling7
nginx6
load-balancing6
reverse-proxy6
haproxy6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/relayer
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
An IBC relayer for ibc-go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 2 comments, 1 issue in 17 days
Contributions summary:Sorawit contributed to the `cosmos/relayer` repository by implementing features related to path generation and management within the IBC relayer. They modified the codebase to allow users to specify port arguments when generating paths. The changes involved modifying command-line arguments and integrating them into the path configuration process, which improved the flexibility and usability of the relayer tool. Furthermore, the user made structural changes to include the subscription to the NewBlock events.
golangcosmos-sdkblockchainibcrelayer
bandprotocol/bandchain-legacy
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:145 commits, 63 pushes in 4 months
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