Sorawit Suriyakarn
CTO And Co-Founder at Band Protocol
Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolSorawit Suriyakarn is a technology leader blending MIT-grade fundamentals with hands-on engineering to build scalable blockchain and fintech infrastructure. He is the CTO and Co-Founder of Band Protocol since 2017, guiding the cross-chain data oracle initiative from Bangkok. His background spans high-performance trading systems at Hudson River Trading and infrastructure roles at Quora and Dropbox, reflecting a breadth of backend and systems expertise. In open source, he contributed to cosmos/relayer as a back-end developer, implementing path generation and NewBlock event subscriptions to improve IBC relayer flexibility. An MIT graduate with a BS in Computer Science and Engineering (5.0/5.0) and an MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (5.0/5.0), and a former MIT Teaching Assistant. Based in Bangkok, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical depth to ship reliable, scalable systems at the edge of blockchain interoperability.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), 5.0/5.0, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), 5.0/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thai, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
cli10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
go10
commandline10
command-line10
cosmos-sdk9
block-chain8
blockchain8
chain8
event-handling7
nginx6
load-balancing6
reverse-proxy6
haproxy6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/relayer
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
An IBC relayer for ibc-go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 2 comments, 1 issue in 17 days
Contributions summary:Sorawit contributed to the `cosmos/relayer` repository by implementing features related to path generation and management within the IBC relayer. They modified the codebase to allow users to specify port arguments when generating paths. The changes involved modifying command-line arguments and integrating them into the path configuration process, which improved the flexibility and usability of the relayer tool. Furthermore, the user made structural changes to include the subscription to the NewBlock events.
golangcosmos-sdkblockchainibcrelayer
bandprotocol/bandchain-legacy
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:145 commits, 63 pushes in 4 months
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