Correctness is the floor. Performance is the ceiling.
I enjoy understanding how systems work internally, profiling bottlenecks, and building software that other engineers can build on top of.
- Reth โ 40+ merged PRs spanning storage, sparse trie optimization, execution scheduling, profiling, and correctness.
- Tempo โ Profiling-driven optimizations to the transaction pool, payload builder, and execution pipeline.
- Foundry โ Core tooling improvements and bug fixes.
- SP1 โ Reduced proving work by optimizing Tendermint ZK light-client verification.
- Gas Optimizations โ Solidity optimization contribution.
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Tiny-LSM โ A production-style LSM storage engine featuring MVCC, WAL, bloom filters, leveled & tiered compaction, tiered storage, and SIMD block decoding.
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XAlloc โ A thread-local memory allocator with lock-free fast paths, size-class segregation, and cache-aware allocation strategies.
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Scroll-Reth โ A modular execution client assembled from Reth's primitives for stateless L2 synchronization.
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Xplode Engine โ Deterministic multiplayer game engine powering real-time distributed gameplay.
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BitTorrent Client โ Concurrent BitTorrent implementation supporting DHT, tracker discovery, parallel downloads, and piece verification.
- Building an LLM from scratch to better understand transformer internals and modern inference systems.
- Extending Tiny-LSM with advanced storage-engine techniques and query execution improvements.
- Profiling production Rust systems using Samply, pprof, flamegraphs, and hardware counters.
- LLM serving architectures: continuous batching, KV-cache management, request scheduling, and memory-efficient inference.
- Cache-efficient data structures, asynchronous runtimes, and high-throughput backend systems.
- ๐ 40+ merged PRs to Reth.
- โก Improved historical state synchronization throughput by 3.3ร.
- ๐ฎ Built a deterministic game engine sustaining 500+ concurrent players.
- ๐ Built a production {2,3}-threshold MPC wallet securing $500M+ in assets.
- ๐๏ธ Built an LSM storage engine and a thread-local memory allocator from scratch.
๐ Website โ https://0xsensei.vercel.app
๐ผ LinkedIn โ https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityapandey1997
๐ฆ X โ https://twitter.com/_0xsensei_





