About

Rishabh Thaney is an accomplished software developer and blockchain engineer with over 4 years of experience in the field. He currently works as a Blockchain Engineer at x-margin, where he develops and deploys smart contracts on the Ethereum and Polygon mainnets. Rishabh has an impressive track record of winning prizes at major hackathons such as ETHGlobal, InOut, and SIH. He has worked for several renowned companies including DeFiner Inc., Blockchain Foundry, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, and Google Summer of Code. He has also completed projects for Consensys and PwC, in addition to numerous personal projects that can be found on his GitHub profile. In his role as a Smart Contract Engineer at DeFiner, Rishabh implemented a more efficient design of the smart contracts, reducing gas consumption by over 2 million units. He also developed new functionalities in the contracts and integrated protocols and services like Compound finance, Chainlink aggregators, and Gnosis multi-sig wallets, reducing the centralization of the smart contracts. Rishabh performed detailed security audits on DeFiner's smart contracts and fixed vulnerabilities, making the contracts more secure and robust. Rishabh is passionate about the idea of a trustless borderless economy and enjoys sharing his insights on the topic by taking sessions and keynoting at blockchain events. He has also served as an Ambassador for Algorand, an open-source public blockchain based on a pure proof-of-stake consensus protocol that supports scalability and transactions, built by Silvio Micali at MIT. Rishabh holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering. He also completed Science (Non-Medical) with Computer Science from Springdales School in India. Rishabh's tech stack includes blockchain, smart contract development, Polygon, Ethereum, software engineering, test, and Python. His relevant experience in the field is 4.61 years.