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  1. grobat79 · · focus · HN ↗
    Location: Kolkata, India (UTC+5:30)

    Remote: Yes, remote-first (open to work in any timezone, comfortable working async with distributed teams)

    Willing to relocate: Yes

    Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, C#/.NET, distributed systems, network protocols (gRPC, binary transports, REST), Model Context Protocol (MCP), ZK (Groth16 on BLS12-381, Arkworks, RISC Zero zkVM)

    Résumé&#x2F;CV: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dyslex7c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dyslex7c

    Email: ritsphs@gmail.com

    Final-year CS student (graduating mid-2027) working on distributed systems, network protocols, and AI agent infrastructure. Looking for remote roles in AI&#x2F;ML systems, agent runtimes, or distributed backend&#x2F;protocol engineering. Open to work across any timezone.

    Recent work:

    - Spigot: Building an HTTP per-call micro-billing gateway and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for autonomous AI agents, handling tool call authorization, atomic ledgering, and idempotency.

    - Nethermind (Ethereum runtime client, C#): did an SWE internship (Mar-Jun 2026), and worked on Pureth (trustless log and state indexing engine). Implemented witness capture endpoints and built an SSZ-REST binary transport that cut latency by 4.8x over JSON-RPC. Also led a type-unification refactor (`long`&#x2F;`UInt256` to `ulong`) across ~1300 files reviewed by core engineers, and fixed failing state-transition specification tests.

    - Grandine (Rust consensus client): integrated the Ziren zkVM into Grandine (merged PR #385) for off-chain execution verification.

    - LayerEdge (SDE intern, Singapore): built a RISC Zero zkVM-backed Rust service and Merkle-tree state-change detection to cut redundant ZK proof verification.

    - cadas-core (Rust research prototype): DispersedSimplex BFT consensus with FRIDA erasure coding, fault-injection simulation, and byte-level network metrics.

    - ZK from scratch: Groth16 zk-SNARK on BLS12-381 (Arkworks); Chaum-Pedersen ZKP gRPC system in Rust with Miller-Rabin prime generation and Fiat-Shamir.

    Also contributed to Reth, Besu, Ream, Forest, and distributed telemetry tooling. Won the Unfold 2024 hackathon Bullieverse AI Agent track.

    Looking for opportunities in the AI&#x2F;ML space (AI agent infrastructure, MCP tool execution, runtime systems), distributed systems, zkVMs, and consensus&#x2F;protocol engineering. I like turning specs into working code and finding spec-vs-implementation bugs.

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