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about

• VP of Platform Engineering at Ava Labs [11/2023-]
• VP of Engineering at Ava Labs [3/2021-11/2023]
  • Program Committee Member at Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2023)
• Senior Software Engineer (Protocol) at Ava Labs [1/2021-3/2021]
• Software Engineer (Crypto) at Coinbase [4/2019-1/2021]
  • [US20210304191A1] System and method for integration and validation (Rosetta)
• B.S. Computer Science from Stanford University [9/2014-12/2017, 9/2018-3/2019]

code

• ava-labs/hypersdk: Opinionated Framework for Building Hyper-Scalable Blockchains on Avalanche
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• ava-labs/indexvm: The Context Layer of the Decentralized Web
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• ava-labs/spacesvm: Authenticated, Hierarchical Key-Value Store w/EIP-712 Compatibility, State Expiry, and Fee-Based Metering
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• coinbase/rosetta-specifications: Specification files for the Rosetta API
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• coinbase/rosetta-sdk-go: Rosetta Client Go SDK
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• coinbase/rosetta-cli: CLI for the Rosetta API
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• coinbase/rosetta-bitcoin: Ethereum Rosetta API Implementation
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• coinbase/rosetta-ethereum: Ethereum Rosetta API Implementation
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posts

• [4/18/24] Processing 5 Billion Micropayments (at 100k TPS) with Vryx and Vilmo
• [1/26/24] Vryx: Fortifying Decoupled State Machine Replication
• [12/18/23] PIV + Single-Chain Scaling
• [12/17/23] Transactions and Perceived Incremental Value (PIV)
• [10/31/23] ACP-13: Subnet-Only Validators (SOVs)
• [10/26/23] Hivenet: Decentralized and Autonomous URL Recommender System Based on Useful Originality
• [10/24/23] [Draft Proposal] The Path to 100k Subnets: Overhauling the Relationship between the Avalanche Primary Network and Subnets
• [10/17/23] Avalanche HyperSDK Research Deep Dive: VM-Agnostic, On-the-Fly, Parallel Transaction Execution
• [10/13/23] Meet Cryptocopia: your new home for open, ecosystem-agnostic, nuanced discussion about the technical evolution of all things blockchain
• [10/11/23] 1 Command -> 1 Multi-Regional, Private #Avalanche HyperSDK Devnet on AWS
• [9/27/23] Introducing Firewood: A Next-Generation Database Built for High-Throughput Blockchains on Avalanche
• [9/20/23] HyperSDK GUI Unboxing
• [9/1/23] Avalanche HyperSDK Research Deep Dive: Deferred State Root Generation
• [8/22/23] Avalanche HyperSDK Research Deep Dive: Multidimensional Fees
• [8/18/23] Introducing HyperSDK Programs: A Minimal, Performance-Focused, WASM-Based Smart Contract Framework for Avalanche
• [8/11/23] Concurrent Batch ed25519 Signature Verification
• [8/8/23] "Wasteful" Block Production on the HyperSDK
• [7/26/23] Pre-Allocate Memory in Codec: Decreasing Memory Usage by 50%
• [7/24/23] Do I need to use a relayer to use AWM?
• [7/24/23] MorpheusVM: The Choice is Yours
• [7/20/23] Migrating the HyperSDK to Millisecond-Denominated Block Times
• [6/26/23] HyperSDK Research Deep Dive: Agreeing on Execution Inputs, not Execution Results
  • ELI5
  • Diagram
  • Discuss
• [6/23/23] Say hello to litevm: "Stateless" Token Transfers on Avalanche Subnets using HyperSDK+MerkleDB
  • MerkleDB Stateless Views
  • VM Implementation
  • Slides
  • Discuss
• [5/17/23] Optimizing WebSocket Support in HyperSDK
• [5/1/23] Adding WebSocket Support to the HyperSDK
• [4/6/23] Automated HyperSDK Devnet Deployment
• [3/23/23] Avalanche Cortina: X-Chain Linearization
• [3/22/23] What happens if the HyperVM can't find anywhere to state sync to (what we call an "acceptable summary")?
• [3/21/23] TokenVM Spam Command
• [3/20/23] HyperSDK now supports Avalanche Warp Messaging (AWM) + Demo
• [3/7/23] TokenVM Warp Swap
• [2/25/23] TokenVM merged into the HyperSDK Repository + Demo
• [2/23/23] Sandwich-Resistant Trading on TokenVM
• [2/22/23] Idea for TokenVM
• [2/21/23] HyperSDK (Opinionated Framework for Building Hyper-Scalable Blockchains on Avalanche) + IndexVM
• [1/14/23] Smooth Primary Network Interaction (VM2)
• [12/23/22] Why Use BLS Multi-Signatures for Avalanche Warp Messaging?
• [12/22/22] Avalanche Warp Messaging LIVE on Mainnet
• [11/18/22] ProposerVM (Snowman++ implementation in AvalancheGo) sequences conflict-free block production without time-based slots over thousands of participants
• [11/9/22] Avalanche Rust SDK
• [9/29/22] Avalanche Banff: Elastic Subnets
• [8/1/22] Avalanche Subnet "Easy Upgrades"
• [7/22/22] New Avalanche Explorer
• [7/14/22] Avalanche Package Manager
• [5/24/22] New Avalanche Faucet
• [4/13/22] BlobVM: Content-Addressable Key-Value Store (without the hierarchical, authenticated namespaces and key expiry of SpacesVM)
• [3/17/22] Say Hello to Stateful Precompiles
  • RandomParty (Incentivized, Shared, Commit/Reveal VRF)
• [1/27/22] Say hi to WAGMI, an EVM Subnet DEMO w/670% gas target and 4% of the min fee of C-Chain
• [1/26/22] Starting today, you've got a magical new command to play with: "subnet-cli wizard"
• [1/20/22] Introducing the SpacesVM
• [12/15/21] subnet-evm: Launch Your Own EVM using only a JSON file
• [10/5/21] Avalanche Notify monitors all validators on the Avalanche Network and sends an email alert to a validator's subscribers if it becomes unresponsive/out-of-date
• [9/16/21] Apricot Phase 4: Snowman++
• [1/14/21] Today is my last day at Coinbase
• [10/26/20] Introducing Rosetta for Ethereum
• [9/22/20] Introducing Rosetta for Bitcoin

talks

• [4/30/24] The Avax Roadmap: The Path To 100,000 Subnets | Patrick O'Grady, Aaron Buchwald & Stephen Buttolph
• [4/22/24] HyperSDK Developer Community Call: Vryx Benchmarks and Solidity Compatibility
• [4/1/24] Scaling Thousands of Blockchains: Leveraging Sovereignty to Maximize Capacity
• [3/22/24] Avalanche Community Call (Roadmap Part 2, ACP Review)
• [3/13/24] HyperSDK Developer Community Call: Vryx development and ProgramVM Modules
• [3/7/24] Avalanche Community Call (Durango Activation, Proposed Avalanche Platform Roadmap)
• [2/21/24] HyperSDK Developer Community Call: In-Depth Discussion with Builders Using the HyperSDK
• [2/14/24] Avalanche Community Call (Durango Activation on Fuji, Teleporter VRF)
• [2/2/24] HyperSDK Vryx: Scaling Blockchains with Fortified Decoupled State Machine Replication
• [1/18/24] Avalanche Community Call (Bloom Filter-Based Peer Discovery, ACP Signaling, Durango Preview, Generalized Finality Detection)
• [12/19/23] Avalanche Community Call (Inscriptions and Fee Mechanism Design)
• [12/19/23] Avalanche: What are Subnets and What's Wrong With Appchains | Kevin Sekniqi & Patrick O'Grady
• [12/13/23] Avalanche Community Call (Cortina 17, Teleporter Upgrade Strategy, ACP Signaling, HyperSDK Auth Refactor)
• [11/29/23] Avalanche Community Call (Cortina 16, ACP Process Review, ACP-23: P-Chain Native Transfers, ACP-24: Activate Shanghai EIPs on C-Chain, ACP-25: Virtual Machine Application Errors, ACP-30: Integrate Avalanche Warp Messaging into the EVM, ACP-31: Enable Subnet Ownership Transfer, ACP-41: Remove Pending Stakers)
• [11/9/23] Avalanche Community Call (Cortina 15, ACP-13: Subnet-Only Validators, ACP-20: ED25519 P2P, HyperSDK Address Refactor)
• [10/26/23] Avalanche Community Call (Cortina 13/14, Concurrent Message Handling, Parallel Transaction Execution, Warp Payload Types, Trie Prefetching, Path to 100k Subnets)
• [10/4/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], Firewood, Dual-Alpha Snowball, Create vs Allocate Fees)
• [9/20/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], avalanche-rs, Teleporter, ArchiveDB, HyperSDK GUI)
• [9/14/23] Legacy vs Next-Gen: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Avalanche | Luigi Demeo, Patrick O'Grady
• [9/7/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], P2P SDK, OhMyWarp.com, ProposerVM Header Pruning)
• [8/23/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], HyperSDK Programs, HyperSDK Multidimensional Fees, Glacier API)
• [8/10/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], Partial Sync Mode, Continuous Block Production, ProposerVM Header Pruning, Precompile-EVM Codespace)
• [7/28/23] Patrick O'Grady: Avalanche – Building High Performance VMs With HyperSDK
• [7/26/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], Precompile-EVM, Pasta Curves, State Sync on All Nodes?)
• [7/12/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], Gossip Optimizations, BLS PRs, Height-Indexed VMs, gRPC Support in HyperSDK?)
• [6/28/23] Avalanche Community Call (ProposerVM Windower, X-Chain Linearization Cleanup, LiteVM, HyperSDK Deferred Verification)
• [6/14/23] Avalanche Community Call ([email protected], PrecompileVM, HyperSDK Optimization Update, Topics in Deferred Verification, HyperSDK Program Ideas)
• [5/23/23] Avalanche Community Call (Coin-Operated Agents, HyperSDK Updates, X-Chain Explorer, [email protected])
  • Dr. Emin Gün Sirer introduces Coin-Operated Agents
• [5/3/23] Building Hyper-Scalable Subnets: Patrick O'Grady Keynote | Avalanche Summit II (Slides)
• [4/19/23] Avalanche Community Call
• [4/5/23] Avalanche Community Call
• [3/23/23] Avalanche Community Call
• [3/9/23] Avalanche Community Call
• [2/24/23] All Access: Introducing HyperSDK with Patrick O'Grady - Ep. 50
• [2/8/23] Patrick O'Grady, Ava Labs Head of Engineering on IN THE CLOB!
• [2/7/23] Cryptocito and Patrick O'Grady from Ava Labs discuss subnets, shared security models, interoperability (AWM + IBC)
• [1/16/23] IC3 Presentation - Warp Messaging
• [12/13/22] Hashing It Out: Application Infrastructure, Part 2
• [10/25/22] The Power of Subnets ft. Patrick O'Grady, Ava Labs | Avalanche Creates | Berkeley
• [10/10/22] Scaling Avalanche with Subnets and Specialized VMs with Patrick O’Grady | a16z crypto research talks
• [10/6/22] Patrick O'Grady | Ava Labs VP of Engineering | Avalanche Ecosystem | Logan Jastremski Podcast #25
• [9/28/22] Scaling for 1 Billion Users and Solving the Blockchain Trilemma - Converge22
• [7/15/22] Scaling Avalanche With Subnets | Avalanche House | FE Brooklyn
• [3/24/22] Patrick O'Grady Keynote: Scaling Avalanche with Subnets | Avalanche Summit 2022
• [11/30/21] In the Lab Ep.1 - A Developer Discussion Series with Ava Labs Engineering

contact

You can reach me at [email protected] or at @_patrickogrady.

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