aloknerurkar

Led the design and development of the mev-commit software stack, including the sidecar application, custom chain, and supporting off-chain services. Designed and developed FastRPC, achieving end-to-end transaction propagation and commitment collection from block builders across the mev-commit P2P network in under 100 ms. Built the monitoring and observability infrastructure for the mev-commit chain and FastRPC service. Helped establish CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring/alerting for testnet and mainnet deployments.

Led the complete rewrite of the Bee storage layer, delivering a significantly more modular and maintainable architecture. Redesigned the storage implementation with improved indexing capabilities, enabling new incentive-layer functionality and future protocol evolution. Built monitoring and observability tooling for the Swarm testnet and mainnet.

Led the design and development of Curator, the primary building block of the SWRM network. Managed a team of three engineers. Developed a lightweight client SDK for integration into client applications.

Developed L2/L3 networking functionality as part of the Sand Platform team. Implemented EVPN Multihoming and VxLAN Multicast support for the Sand family chipsets.

Part of the AltaVault cloud backup team. Implemented advanced Open Storage protocol features including synthetic and accelerator backups.

Worked on the Data Backup and Recovery group responsible for SnapMirror, NetApp's flagship backup and disaster recovery platform. Implemented cross-platform backup protocols enabling interoperability across NetApp storage products and cloud backup workflows. Won multiple company-wide hackathons, with winning prototypes subsequently developed into production features.