01Highlights
02About
An experienced Senior Blockchain Engineer with 6 years of expertise in Defi and Rollup protocol engineering.
His DeFi protocols have processed over $100 million in lifetime volume. As a Rollup expert, he has made direct contributions to Taiko Rollup's core protocol and preconfirmation system, and played a key role in the modularisation of Taiko to build the Surge rollup stack.
Overall, Anshu possesses an in-depth understanding of EVM architecture and hands-on experience with advanced rollup protocols like Taiko and Optimism, as well as DeFi applications such as MakerDAO, Uniswap, and Aave.
03Experience
Nethermind
Senior Blockchain Engineer- Designed and developed smart contracts for Taiko Rollup's based preconfirmation system, reducing block time from 12s to 2s on mainnet.
- Built a synchronous cross-chain composability system supporting same-slot L1 + L2 transfers.
- Led smart contract development to make the Taiko stack configurable and modular (Surge rollup stack).
- Implemented a finality gadget and mechanisms to transition the protocol to a Stage-2 rollup.
- Contributing to FABRIC — Ethereum ecosystem research effort for Based Rollups.
Plenty Labs
Lead Software Engineer- Led a 10-member engineering team to build and deploy two versions of Plenty Network.
- Developed Plenty V2 AMM with vote escrow system — $3M TVL, 30K+ daily interactions, $100M+ lifetime volume.
- Engineered Plenty V3 concentrated liquidity exchange with architectural improvements over Uniswap V3.
- Both versions passed security review with no high/medium vulnerabilities.
Kickflow
Co-Founder- Built and managed a 3-member team to develop Kickflow — a decentralized quadratic funding platform.
- Engineered secure smart contracts that distributed $40,000 in grants to entry-level web3 projects.
- Grew community to 2,000 members in 3 months.
Tezos
Blockchain Fellowship- One of 10 students selected across India to study the Tezos blockchain protocol in depth.
- Built an extensive decentralized application on Tezos.
04Talks & Interviews
05Research
Blob Sharing for Based Rollups
A minimally complex protocol enabling based rollups to efficiently share blobs using EIP-7702, reducing costs and wasteful blob space consumption.
Same-Slot L1-L2 Message Passing
Research on synchronous cross-chain composability enabling same-slot message passing between L1 and L2.
06Open Source Contributions
taiko-mono
Taiko Alethia based rollup protocol — core smart contracts and off-chain nodes for Based Preconfirmations.
surge-taiko-mono
A modularised Based Rollup stack built on Taiko — configurable protocol allowing custom feature deployment.
Catalyst
The preconfer sidecar for Taiko Alethia preconfirmations — enabling 2s block times on mainnet.
ethML-core
Contracts for EthML — a decentralized AI implementation on Ethereum.
harbinger
A Rust library and CLI for generating proofs of inclusion in Ethereum's Beacon state (EIP-4788).
neper-finance
A unique algorithmic stablecoin with hard price floor and negative interest rates.
07Education
Heritage Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology
St. James' School, Kolkata
High School — Science