Rootul Patel
Engineering Manager, Protocol at Celestia
As a distributed systems engineering manager, I lead an 8-person team that owns reliability, performance, and scale for the Celestia protocol. I've spent 10 years on distributed systems, from consensus protocols in Go to Ethereum infrastructure at AWS and data platforms at Palantir.
My work spans engineering leadership and hands-on protocol development. At Celestia, I led the first consensus-breaking network upgrade and established the framework used by subsequent upgrades. Previously, I expanded Ethereum support for Amazon Managed Blockchain to six AWS regions and built applications for Palantir Foundry.