# Rootul Patel

Engineering Manager, Protocol at [Celestia](https://celestia.org/)

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](https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/) and data platforms at [Palantir](https://www.palantir.com/palantir-foundry/).

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.

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