Skanda Bhat

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I am a developer/strategist/tech lead/entrepreneur. I love thinking about cypherpunk ideals.

Previously, I was tech lead at Razor Network and Metalayer.
In the past, I have worked at Signeasy and Ather Energy.
I work on a gmail productivity tool, Simplehuman during my free time.

Work

Open Source

I believe in the value of free and open source software.

Razor Network: This has been my primary open source contribution for the past few years, as I was the tech lead for Razor Network.
Reth: I have been making tiny contributions to the Reth project, which is a Rust implementation of the Ethereum protocol.

Writing

I write about various technology topics that interest me, in a simple and understandable format.

Demystifying Ethereum Light Clients: This is a light introduction to Ethereum Light Clients, why they are important, and a few specifications from ETH 2.0.
Ethereum Rollups Technical Overview: This is a high level overview of Ethereum's scaling efforts using rollups.

Publishing

(IEEE: 10.1109/ICKEA.2017.8169892) Sentiment analysis for sarcasm detection on streaming short text data: I explored different ways of collating datasets, and data labelling to increase accuracy of sarcasm detection in short text streaming data, specifically realtime twitter data.