Varun Srinivasan
Engineering at Tempo
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Srinivasan is a seasoned engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building product-led engineering teams and decentralized systems. He co-founded Farcaster and led core protocol and smart contract work—implementing gas-efficient Solidity contracts and a TypeScript-based node engine that powers signed cast chains and sync protocols. Previously he scaled product and engineering organizations at Coinbase as Sr. Director and has a track record of founding startups (SoundFocus) and shipping consumer productivity features at Microsoft OneNote. Based in Los Angeles and a Carnegie Mellon Information Systems alumnus, he blends hands-on backend and blockchain development with product leadership. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to move between low-level smart contract optimization and high-level network design, making him effective at both ship-ready code and system architecture.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at The International School BangaloreB.S., Information Systems, B.S., Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Tamil, Telugu
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Github Skills (20)
solidity10
back-end-development10
testing10
typescript10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
smart-contracts10
typescripts10
backend10
nodejs9
gas-optimization9
flatbuffers7
cx-freeze6
google-search-api6
database6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
farcasterxyz/contracts
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Implementation of the Farcaster contracts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 125 reviews, 129 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Varun implemented the core smart contract functionality for the Farcaster contracts. They developed the `AccountRegistry` contract and implemented features such as account registration, setting recovery addresses, and handling transfers. The contributions also include creating Solidity test files and scripts to deploy the smart contracts. Further, the user refactored the code to improve gas efficiency.
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farcasterxyz/hub-monorepo
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Implementation of the Farcaster Hub specification and supporting libraries for building applications on Farcaster
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 277 reviews, 87 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Varun implemented core features related to Farcaster Hub functionality, including node interaction, message processing, and chain validation. They focused on creating a basic node engine capable of handling signed cast chains and designed a sync protocol for data propagation. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the Farcaster specification and utilized TypeScript for building the application's core logic and networking.
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