Sudeep Kumar
Software Engineer & Ethereum Researcher at Erigon
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSudeep Kumar is a software engineer and Ethereum researcher with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to Erigon’s Ethereum client development from Bengaluru. He focuses on core node logic—transaction execution, state transitions, and EVM tooling—and has implemented EIP-7702 and improvements to Erigon’s t8n and internal utilities. Previously he helped build Covalent’s decentralized data infrastructure tackling read scalability and data availability for Ethereum and worked across mobile and backend systems as a tech lead at Zendrive. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, he blends deep protocol-level expertise with practical product delivery across distributed systems, IPFS, and mobile SDKs. Notably, his open-source contributions to the widely used Erigon project reflect a rare combination of research-grade protocol work and production-ready engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
ISC, ISC at Kerala Public School, KadmaBachelors & Masters Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors & Masters Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (14)
evm10
transaction10
transactional10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
netcore6
carthage6
algorithm6
mobile6
elisp6
math6
emacs6
visual-studio-app-center6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
erigontech/erigon
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 reviews, 4 commits, 114 PRs in 22 days
Contributions summary:Sudeep primarily contributed to the core logic of the Ethereum implementation, focusing on transaction execution, state transitions, and the development of tools for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Their work involved modifying and refactoring existing code, adding new APIs, and integrating with other parts of the Erigon system. They also implemented EIP-7702, related to setting code transactions, and made improvements to the t8n tool and other internal utilities.
ethereumsolidityfrontierblockchain
covalenthq/ipfs-pinner
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
IPFS-pinner is a golang package enabling simplified IPFS interaction for Covalent network artifacts, with extended functionality like custom file upload support (to pinning services), content archive file and deterministic CID generation, while acting as a lightweight IPFS node (with local caching)
Contributions:6 releases, 55 reviews, 65 commits in 10 months
web3-storageweb3decentralizedstorageuploading
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