Vaivaswatha N
Compiler Engineer at Fuel Labs
Mysuru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVaivaswatha N is a compiler engineer with eight years of focused experience building reliable compiler and smart-contract execution infrastructure, currently at Fuel Labs and previously at Zilliqa. He combines deep academic training in compilers and program analysis from IISc with practical systems work at NVIDIA and multiple fintech and blockchain firms. His open-source contributions include stabilizing the Sway smart contract language and improving Zilliqa’s interpreter and testing utilities, reflecting a specialty in semantic analysis, constant initialization, intrinsics, and test-driven compiler fixes. Known for cleaning up tricky function-definition and clippy failures, he brings meticulous bug-hunting and refactoring skills that improve long-term code quality. Based in Mysuru, he pairs research-grade rigor with hands-on backend engineering to make complex language tooling production-ready.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Compilers and Program Analysis, Master of Science (MSc), Compilers and Program Analysis at Indian Institute of ScienceBE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of EngineeringManasarowar Pushkarini Vidyashrama
Kannada, English
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Github Skills (21)
transit-gateway10
testing10
eway10
payment-gateway10
axway10
compiler-design10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
rust10
c-language9
error-handling9
cprogramming-language9
irr9
json8
jit6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
FuelLabs/sway
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:255 reviews, 52 commits, 169 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Vaivaswatha primarily focused on resolving errors and improving the reliability of the `sway` smart contract language compiler. They fixed multiple function definition errors and related issues in the core compiler and semantic analysis modules. Further, they addressed clippy failures and worked on constant initialization, including refactoring and adding tests. The user also implemented and tested intrinsics and improved the code quality by cleaning up, fixing bugs and improving tests.
swayethereumblockchainplutusreliable
Zilliqa/Zilliqa
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 62 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vaivaswatha contributed to the Zilliqa blockchain repository, specifically focusing on enhancing the smart contract execution environment. The commits demonstrate modifications to handle null messages and changes to the output format from the interpreter, indicating work on the core logic of contract execution. The user also added a ScillaTestUtil for reading test data from Scilla and rewrote a test case, indicating a focus on improving the testing infrastructure for smart contracts. These changes suggest involvement in the back-end development of the blockchain platform.
blockchain-platformzilliqablockchainscalehigh-throughput
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