Arpit Temani

Senior Protocol Engineer

India

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Senior Protocol Engineer with 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years designing L1/L2 blockchain protocols and cross-chain infrastructure using Go and Rust within the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 150,000

Skills

Cross-chain Infrastructure9/10

Go9/10

Ethereum9/10

L1/L2 Blockchain Protocols9/10

DEX Development8/10

Docker (8/10)Execution Clients (8/10)Kubernetes (8/10)Lending Protocols (8/10)MEV (8/10)MEV Research (8/10)Python (8/10)REST API Development (8/10)Ruby (8/10)Rust (8/10)AMM Design (8/10)ZK Rollups (8/10)AWS (8/10)Consensus Algorithms (8/10)Cosmos SDK (8/10)

Work Experience

Senior Protocol Engineer

Polygon

Feb 2023 — Present

Designed fault-tolerant L1 to L2 deposit pipeline reducing finality from 15+ minutes to under 60 seconds. Built decentralized data relay protocol (AggOracle). Shipped high-throughput REST APIs for AggKit Bridge. Developed middleware protocol connecting Ethereum execution clients with Polygon Zero ZK Prover. Led Delhi Fork (PIP5) reducing sprint length from 64 to 16 blocks. Led Aalborg Fork (PIP11) achieving deterministic finality under 60 seconds.

Protocol Engineer 2

Polygon

Apr 2020 — Jan 2023

Researched MEV dynamics on Polygon PoS and published validator-focused impact report. Built automated private devnet framework with CI integration. Integrated upstream EIPs from Geth into Bor ensuring protocol compatibility (PIP31, PIP33).

Software Engineer

Fortanix

Sept 2018 — Apr 2020

Lead Software Engineer

MoEngage

Jul 2017 — Aug 2018

Software Developer / Software Developer 2

Housing.com

Jun 2015 — Jun 2017

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

BE (Honours) · Computer Science

? – 2015