Nagaprasad V R

• Company overview: ABKLABS is a Solana-based company focused on building open-source software
• Primarily contributing to and maintaining high-performance backend software that acts as the read layer for Solana.
• Enhanced Metaplex DAS-API and indexer by incorporating new features, improving performance, adapting to Solana advancements, and resolving bugs.
• Enhancing and sustaining Yellowstone-Vixen, incorporating vixen parsers for additional solana programs with gRPC-proto support, optimizing performance and actively contributing to feature implementation and bug fixes
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align technical requirements with project goals.

Turbin3 is Solana's leading education, research, and development hub.

Role: As a teacher at Turbin3, I have led cohorts on.

• Adv-SVM: An in-depth addressing of Anza's Agave validator client, distinct phases of validator operations, and the transaction journey via validators.
• Pinocchio: Articulate the potential of writing Solana programs leveraging the Pinocchio library for high performance, with zero-copy deserialization, and focused on reduced compute units.

Also as a student i have attended Research cohorts and other cohorts to extend my learning

• Company Overview: A financial derivatives protocol on Solana.| Visit
• Primarily worked on three areas: UI, backend, and Solana programs.
• Developed and maintained Solana programs for the convergence protocol, and also integrated external programs to ensure interoperability.
• Developed comprehensive test cases covering all scenarios for robust program functionality.
• Developed and maintained convergence SDKs to integrate Solana programs, also included wrappers to send transactions, build instructions, parse on-chain states, etc.
• Developed various landing pages and UIs for convergence using Next.js. This also included integrating the SDK to interact with on-chain programs to execute business logic.