Venkat Ravi
Software Engineer at Dow Jones
South Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolVenkat Ravi is a software consulting engineer and MS Computer Science candidate at the University of South Florida with eight years of professional experience spanning startups and global firms. He has production-grade backend experience and is an active open-source contributor to CosmWasm, where he implemented and refactored staking and smart-contract migration logic to handle multiple token types and improve security and performance. Currently consulting at Dow Jones while holding a technology analyst role at Infosys, he blends hands-on smart contract and backend engineering with research experience from USF. Based in New Jersey, he brings pragmatic code quality and testing discipline learned across fast-paced product teams and blockchain frameworks—often surfacing subtle security checks and performance optimizations that aren’t obvious from high-level specs.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of South FloridaBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Vidya Jyothi Institute Of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
blazor-webassembly10
rust10
webassembly10
backend10
cosmwasm10
testing8
json-schema7
pip6
virtual-hosts6
proxmox6
rasa6
ujson6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CosmWasm/cw-plus
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Real-life smart contracts under open-source licenses
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Venkat implemented core backend functionalities for a staking contract within the CosmWasm framework. Their contributions involved modifying the `handle_bond` and `handle_claim` functions to handle different token types and enforce security checks. They refactored the code to optimize performance, introduced a `must_pay_funds` function, and streamlined the logic related to handling native and CW20 tokens. The user also made improvements by addressing lint errors and incorporating best practices.
smart-contracts
CosmWasm/cosmwasm
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
WebAssembly Smart Contracts for the Cosmos SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Venkat primarily focused on modifying smart contract code, specifically within the `hackatom` and `burner` contracts, as well as the core framework. Key changes included altering the `MigrateMsg` structure, updating function signatures, and modifying entry points within the `packages/std` and `packages/vm` directories. The user also updated tests to reflect these changes. These modifications suggest a focus on refactoring and evolving the contract's migration logic.
cosmos-sdksmart-contractswebassemblyrust
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