Spoorthi Satheesha
Protocol Engineer at Bolt Liquidity
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSpoorthi Satheesha is a protocol engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening blockchain infrastructure, currently based in Munich and working at Bolt Liquidity. She has deep hands-on expertise in Cosmos SDK and IBC ecosystems—contributing to core repos like cosmos-sdk and cosmovisor, improving test coverage and refactoring bank modules to prevent edge-case panics. Her recent roles include writing ICS21 specifications for permissioned cross-chain transfers and developing multiple x/ modules (callback, cwerrors, cwica, cron, authority, globalfee) across Archway and Stargaze, demonstrating both design-level protocol thinking and practical module implementation. She founded The Cosmos Ladies to mentor newcomers and run validator infrastructure, reflecting a commitment to community-building and education alongside engineering. With a master's background in cloud and network infrastructures from KTH/TU Berlin and a thesis on privacy for financial blockchains, she blends rigorous academic foundations with production-grade distributed-systems delivery.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cloud and Network Infrastructures, Master of Science - MS Cloud and Network Infrastructures at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySummer School Healthy Lifestyle and Behavioral Change, Summer School Healthy Lifestyle and Behavioral Change at Eindhoven University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Cloud and Network Infrastructures, Master of Science - MS Cloud and Network Infrastructures at Technische Universität Berlin
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (7)
golang10
cosmos-sdk10
go10
blockchain10
testing10
cryptocurrency9
tendermint8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/cosmos-sdk
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 19 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Spoorthi's primary contributions involved enhancing the testing coverage for the `cosmos-sdk` project, specifically related to the `DecCoins` and `x/bank` modules. This included adding new test cases to address edge conditions and potential panics, as evidenced by the code modifications in `dec_coin_test.go` and `balance_test.go`. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code within the `x/bank/types/balance.go` and `x/bank/keeper/send.go` files and added new features to the `cosmovisor` to manage the pre-upgrade command call.
golangcosmos-sdkblockchainchainscryptocurrency
spoo-bar/cosmos-sdk
Jul 2021 - Oct 2024
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
blockchainchainsblockchain-networkquorumsparkles
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