Raul Kripalani

Raul Kripalani is a Principal/Distinguished Engineer at Protocol Labs, specializing in distributed systems, peer-to-peer networking, and decentralized technologies.

Raul currently contributes as an Engineer for IPC (InterPlanetary Consensus).

Previously at Protocol Labs, Raul served as the Director for the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), where Raul architected, designed, and led the engineering team from prototype to mainnet launch, fostering an ecosystem with over 4500 smart contracts and $300M+ in userland TVL. Raul also held roles as Technical Lead for Filecoin, driving correctness and testing for its mainnet launch, and as the Creator of Testground, a platform for large-scale distributed system simulation.

As the Technical and Project Lead for libp2p, Raul shaped its technical vision, roadmap, and ecosystem, partnering with Eth2 researchers and growing its contributor base. Prior to Protocol Labs, Raul was a Protocol Engineer for Ethereum at ConsenSys, where Raul designed components for an Eth1 client and created EthQL, which evolved into the EIP-1767 standard.

With a strong background as a Principal Systems Architect and Principal Consultant, Raul's expertise spans SOA, enterprise architecture, middleware, and open-source integration, working with technologies like Apache ServiceMix, Camel, ActiveMQ, and JBoss. Raul is currently focused on building @0xff_lab.

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