Raneet Debnath

Protocol Engineer

Remote

🟢Aping In

Core Protocol Engineer specializing in the architecture, performance, and security of core blockchain infrastructure. My experience is centered on building and maintaining high-throughput distributed systems that handle millions of daily transactions. At Polygon Labs, I served as a core contributor to the consensus (Heimdall) and execution (Bor) layer. In my spare time, I like to browse through research papers on developments in BFT systems, watch films and read.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 120,000 – 149,998

Skills

Blockchain Protocol Engineering9/10

GoLang9/10

Ethereum/EVM8/10

Cosmos SDK8/10

CometBFT/Tendermint8/10

Git (7/10)Go (7/10)Terraform (7/10)Consensus Mechanisms (7/10)Docker (7/10)Ethereum (7/10)Foundry (7/10)Node Operation (7/10)Polygon (7/10)AWS/GCP (7/10)NodeJs (6/10)Datadog (6/10)Kubernetes (6/10)Redis (6/10)Solidity (5/10)

Work Experience

Protocol Engineer

Polygon Labs

Apr 2021 — Jan 2026

Core Protocol Engineer on Polygon sidechain to Ethereum, working on heimdall (Cosmos SDK/CometBFT) and bor (go-ethereum fork). Led heimdall-v2 rewrite using ABCI++ and CometBFT vote extensions, reducing block finality from 9s to 2s. Led RCA for critical network outage, resolved race conditions, patched security bugs, built express-cli devnet tool, improved bor caching and block producer selection algorithm.

Software Engineer

Persistent Systems

Aug 2020 — Apr 2021

Junior developer working on client CRM projects using Salesforce. Learnt Salesforce as part of the trainee program.

Education

Techno International New Town

BTech · Computer Science

2016 – 2020