Rootul Patel

• Interim team lead for the core/app team responsible for Celestia's consensus layer (a modular blockchain data availability network)
• Led the first consensus layer upgrade (v2.0.0), establishing the upgrade framework used by all subsequent network upgrades
• Drove implementation of consensus layer upgrades v4, v5, v6, and v7 on a live mainnet
• Authored 888 and reviewed 1,956 merged pull requests across celestia-app and celestia-core
• Managed releases for mainnet and testnet, coordinating upgrade rollouts with node operators

• Responsible for expanding 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 patent: Tools for chemical manufacturing

Dean's Letter of Commendation, Cum Laude