Yash Atreya
Software Engineer at Paradigm
Canada
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Top SchoolYash Atreya is a software engineer and entrepreneur with seven years of experience, currently co-founding Oliver.chat to build a WhatsApp AI agent for everyday purchases. He previously worked at Paradigm contributing backend systems and open-source tooling, and is an active contributor to Foundry—an influential Rust toolkit for Ethereum—where he improved Anvil configuration, multi-chain verification, and overall stability. Trained in computer science at UBC with engineering roots from KIT and NMIMS, he blends rigorous systems engineering with product-minded startups. He’s strong on blockchain infrastructure, low-level performance fixes, and pragmatic test-driven development, often tackling dependency and verification challenges that aren’t obvious from product-facing roles.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of British
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
evm10
ethereum10
blockchain10
rust10
solidity9
forge9
alloy9
react-instantsearch6
firebase-cloud-messaging6
firebase6
instantsearch6
react-native-firebase6
twitter6
google-cloud-functions6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
foundry-rs/foundry
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:175 reviews, 195 PRs, 604 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily contributed to the development of the core functionality of the Foundry project. Their work involved implementing features for the Anvil component, focusing on configuration and management of blockchain parameters, including epoch slots, and supporting multi-chain verification for the Etherscan integration. They also addressed a number of issues related to the underlying alloy and revm dependencies, which improved the overall performance and stability of the project. Furthermore, they have made contributions to tests, especially regarding testing deployment of contracts with the new `verify-bytecode` command.
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yash-atreya/alloy
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
Transports, Middleware, and Networks for the Alloy project
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 28 branches in 3 months
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