Eela Nagaraj
Staff Software Engineer at SpruceID
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEela Nagaraj is a Berlin-based Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building robust systems, currently leading engineering efforts at SpruceID after progressing through multiple hands-on Rust roles. A Harvard BA in Computer Science and former Division I student-athlete, she blends disciplined team leadership with deep technical craft, especially in systems programming and blockchain-adjacent infrastructure. Her background includes senior engineering at cLabs and QuantCo, pairing production-grade backend work with quantitative problem solving. As a former Fulbright ETA Fellow and teaching fellow at Harvard, she brings experience mentoring and communicating complex ideas to diverse audiences. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who moves quickly from research and prototyping to reliable, maintainable production code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Harvard UniversitySaint Francis High School
English, german (c1)
Github Skills (44)
crypto10
wallet10
go-server10
cryptocurrency10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
identity9
core-library9
test-project9
golang9
typedoc9
ssi9
decentralized-identity8
science8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ReDI-School/ber-dcp-intro-to-computer-science
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Intro to Computer Science - DCP - Berlin
Contributions:8 reviews, 25 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 1 month
computer-sciencesciencedcp
spruceid/cose-rs
Jan 2024 - Jul 2025
Pure rust implementation of RFC-8152.
Contributions:17 reviews, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
rust
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