Poulav Bhowmick

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  • Protocol fellow at Ethereum focused on consensus and P2P. Implemented memory‑aware caching for consensus clients, preventing OOM situations during non finality; validated with tracing, benchmarks and property tests.
  • Comfortable across SSZ, BLS/KZG, fork‑choice and libp2p (Gossipsub/Identify/Request–Response).
  • Selected as 1 of 20 fellows from 1,200 applicants for the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (June 2025 – Nov 2025) and as 1 of 40 fellows from 500 participants for the OnlyDust Fellowship (June 2024 – Aug 2025). Grant recipient for StarkFinder (Starknet) and MidoFinance (Solana).
  • Built and maintained full‑stack applications (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL) at Invisible Studios, reducing API p95 latency by 30 % through query‑plan tuning and index optimization.
  • Maintainer of gossimini, merkle‑rs, a Rust OS kernel and ethvm. Contributor to Reth, Lighthouse, libp2p, Alloy, Revm, Kona and more.
  • Born and raised in Kolkata, India. Pursuing a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Heritage Institute of Technology (Sept 2022 – June 2026, CGPA 7.9/10).
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