Rootul Patel

• Lead an 8-person team (10 reports including two on loan to adjacent team) owning reliability, performance, and scale for the Celestia protocol
• Defined and now drive execution against Q2 OKRs spanning network reliability, protocol performance, and scale targets

• Lead a 4-person team owning the Celestia consensus layer

• Led the first consensus layer upgrade (v2.0.0), establishing the upgrade framework used by all subsequent network upgrades
• Authored 888 and reviewed 1,956 merged pull requests across celestia-app and celestia-core

• Expanded Ethereum support for Amazon Managed Blockchain to 6 AWS regions
• Recognized as employee of the month 3 times in less than 2 years (team of ~20 engineers)
• Saved our team $19K+ per month by optimizing Kinesis usage

• Maintained Foundry Reports, a cross-platform dashboarding application deployed to hundreds of enterprise organizations
• Developed Foundry Data Connection application that connected to external databases and systems to enable automated data pipelines into Foundry
• Awarded patents: Tools for chemical manufacturing and Automated risk visualization

Dean's Letter of Commendation, Cum Laude, Co-president Computer Science Society