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Early Go engineer on a rollup node, then led its 5-engineer team to production; shipped 2 mainnet protocol changes; now a PM prototyping agentic payment experiments.", "location": { "city": "New York", "region": "NY", "countryCode": "US" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "GitHub", "username": "Manav-Aggarwal", "url": "https://github.com/Manav-Aggarwal" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "manav", "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/manav" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "Celestia Labs", "url": "https://celestia.org/", "location": "New York, NY (Remote)", "startDate": "2022-03", "roles": [ { "position": "Product Manager", "startDate": "2026-02", "highlights": [ "Ran discovery for agentic-commerce products through user interviews and prototypes; recommended which ideas to pursue or kill.", "Co-designed an [agent micropayments scheme on x402](https://cloudflare-payments.pages.dev/) for paid content at the CDN edge and built its prototype site. Edge servers verify each payment locally against one threshold public key with no chain round-trip; a rollup settles in batches.", "Specced a cross-chain credit product; researched agent auditability and how exchanges digitize market infrastructure." ] }, { "position": "Product Team Lead, Interop", "startDate": "2025-05", "endDate": "2026-02", "highlights": [ "Owned the spec and engineering roadmap for [Lazybridging](https://blog.celestia.org/lazybridging-demo/), Celestia's cross-chain bridging protocol. **Managed 3 engineers**, hiring 2.", "Led 2 of them building a stablecoin solver for instant transfers onto [Eden](https://x.com/celestia/status/2111054730038583485), Celestia's agentic-commerce chain; paused it pre-launch after my analysis found the interop market saturated, and recommended pivoting the team to cross-chain credit.", "Authored and implemented [**CIP-45**](https://github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs/blob/main/cips/cip-045.md) in Go and **shipped it to mainnet**: single-signature token transfers routed through Celestia to a destination chain, now used by bot.fun on Eden.", "Authored and led the design of [**CIP-46**](https://github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs/blob/main/cips/cip-046.md), shipped in the same upgrade: on-chain ZK verification of cross-chain messages, an alternative to multisig trust." ] }, { "position": "Product Team Lead (Engineering Manager & Tech Lead), Evolve (formerly Rollkit)", "startDate": "2023-11", "endDate": "2025-05", "highlights": [ "**Managed 5 engineers** (hiring, 1:1s, performance reviews, promotions), reporting to the Head of Engineering. As tech lead and release owner, set the engineering roadmap for the [Evolve stack](https://ev.xyz), a Go framework for launching custom blockchains.", "Deprioritized fraud proofs to ship production full nodes first, then added EVM support so EVM chains could launch on the stack.", "Drove adoption by [VeVe's Disney-licensed Collect chain](https://www.veve.me/en) and [XO Markets](https://xo.markets); Eden later launched on the stack.", "Ran the handover of Evolve's code, maintainership and users to Binary Builders, keeping Celestia a neutral data layer." ] }, { "position": "Protocol Engineer, Rollkit", "startDate": "2022-03", "endDate": "2023-11", "highlights": [ "Joined Rollkit, a rollup framework, as its third engineer; built the core of its node in Go: sequencer, block sync and exchange, execution interface, and data-availability integration.", "Designed P2P sync so full nodes follow the chain with low-latency soft confirmations before data-availability finality.", "Wrote the [spec (ADR-009, proposed)](https://github.com/evstack/ev-node/blob/main/docs/adr/adr-009-state-fraud-proofs.md) and [merged prototype](https://github.com/evstack/ev-node/pull/567) for non-interactive state fraud proofs, based on an [academic paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09044)." ] } ] }, { "name": "Two Sigma Investments, LP", "url": "https://www.twosigma.com/", "location": "New York, NY", "startDate": "2020-06", "roles": [ { "position": "Software Engineer, Time-Series Storage, Platform Engineering", "startDate": "2021-08", "endDate": "2022-03", "highlights": [ "Built time-series storage infrastructure in Java that quantitative engineers used to backtest trading algorithms." ] }, { "position": "Software Engineer Intern, AlphaStudio, Modeling Engineering", "dateLabel": "Summer 2020", "highlights": [ "Built a distributed function-as-a-service platform (Kubernetes, Java, PostgreSQL); led requirements and wrote the design doc." ] } ] }, { "name": "Meta", "url": "https://www.meta.com/", "location": "Seattle, WA", "startDate": "2019-06", "roles": [ { "position": "Software Engineer Intern, Probabilistic Programming", "dateLabel": "Summer 2019", "highlights": [ "Built parallelized MCMC and variational inference over data subsets in HackPPL, a probabilistic programming framework." ] } ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Stanford University", "url": "https://www.stanford.edu/", "studyType": "B.S. & M.S.", "area": "Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence and Systems Track)", "endDate": "2021-06", "score": "3.8", "courses": [], "activities": "CS 107 Teaching Assistant, CS 106 Section Leader, ACM ICPC Regionals Team" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Languages", "keywords": [ "Go (Golang)", "Python", "C/C++", "Java", "JavaScript", "SQL" ] }, { "name": "Infrastructure", "keywords": [ "Kubernetes", "Docker", "Terraform" ] }, { "name": "Areas", "keywords": [ "distributed systems", "P2P networking" ] } ], "meta": { "lastModified": "2026-11-03", "canonical": "https://manav-aggarwal.pages.dev/resume.json" } }