Pawan
Solana engineer
hi i am a 22 year old Solana engineer working at the protocol level.
Most of my time goes into validator internals — Turbine, Gossip, QUIC, the path a block takes from leader to cluster. Lately i've been deep on sBPF and how the runtime actually executes transactions. The distributed systems side of it is what dragged me here to begin with — consensus, replication, fault tolerance, the unglamorous math behind why ~1500 validators don't trip over each other.
Superteam member. The occasional rabbit hole becomes a teardown when something finally clicks.
Skills
- Languages
- Rust · Go · TypeScript · C
- Runtime
- sBPF · Anchor · Pinocchio · Solana programs
- Tooling
- Vim · Git · Surfpool · Mollusk · LiteSVM
Proof of Work
Apr 2026
- Respect Active Rust Toolchain in
anchor idl build- #4484Removed a hardcoded +stable fallback in
anchor idl buildso it honors the project's active toolchain via rust-toolchain.toml or rustup default.
Jun 2025
- Error Handling & Port Availability - #439
Improved error handling and port availability checks in Surfpool's Simnet threading flow.
Oct 2023
- Error Context Wrapping - #15055
Contributed to Argo CD by wrapping error objects to include context for better debugging.
Experience
places i've shipped from.
- Epoch2026—now
Co-Founder
Currently building Epoch, a private prediction market on Solana powered by Arcium
- Superteam2024—now
Active Member
Won 2x grants for building innovative projects on Solana
- Orbitxpay2024—2025
Full stack Developer
Built multiple frontend apps across the Orbitxpay ecosystem
GitHub Activity
commits, PRs and issues — by year.
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Writing
notes on solana internals and distributed systems.
elsewhere
- x
- @dotsvm
- github
- @dotsvm
- @pawandot
- heypawanb@gmail.com