Ganesha Upadhyaya builds scalable tools for mobile, IOT/cloud, and distributed systems. At Huawei, he developed a language, codegen compiler, and runtime for IoT end-to-end applications, winning a company-wide award. He published over a dozen papers at top-tier conferences and journals, such as International Conference on Software Engineering, and Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications.
Ganesha holds a Master’s and PhD from Iowa State University and is a recipient of John Vincent Atanasoff award for outstanding research contribution. He enjoys playing professional cricket and cooking delicious vegetarian meals.
Upcoming Plans
- Monthly Deliverables: 2021 Oct
- Finish trustless eth bridge implementation, testing, audit fixes to get it product ready
- Finish BTC bridge implementation, testing, audit fixes to get it product ready
- Prototyping 1anchor w/ boris & onelido w/ jacky [proposal]
- Quarterly Milestones: 2021 Q4
- Trustless eth & btc bridge launch
- 1anchor & onelido launch w/ boris,jacky
- Paternity time off
- Yearly Planning: 2022 Q1 - Q3
- More bridges: cosmos, polygon, solana, celo, layer-2
- 20% basic income (1anchor, 1lido, dONE)
- Zero knowledge incorporation & clients (lightclient, privacy), hire at least 1 solidity/ecosystem tooling engineer
Past 6-Month Achievements
- Trustless eth & btc bridge; horizon enhancements & support
- NFT support contracts, deflationary tokens, external validators
- 10-20 tickets/day
- Ecosystem development & partner technical support
- Dev tooling, docs, bounties
- 1m hackathon initial prep & boiler plating apps
- Aave, curve, btp/ibriz, yearn, chainlink, sushi, lkura, anyswap, spacemisfits, ledger, webb, terra, ...
- Project planning & more
Weekly updates
10-27
- Bitcoin bridge launch planning and remaining task assignments
- Review internal audit comments on trustless horizon and created key issues to resolve (blockers). Due to resource requirements for bitcoin bridge, horizon work will be stalled for next couple of weeks. More info here.
- Review crosschain NFT PRs
- https://bridge.harmony.one customer support during RPC outages (25-50 emails/day)
10-18
- Review BTC Bridge contracts, chainlink price feed integration, contract upgradability, governance update to bridge parameters
- Internal audit fixes for trustless ETH Bridge & eth chain reorg fix to ethereum light client
- Review HRC1155 support PR