Sudipta Basak

Sudipta Basak is a skilled software engineer currently employed at American Express since August 2024. Prior to this role, Sudipta contributed as a blockchain developer at Nethermind and as a research and development engineer at Status, where involvement in the Data Availability Sampling project took place in collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation. In late 2023, Sudipta worked as an Aptos Fellow, successfully designing a protocol for decentralized phone number verification and a simplified crypto payment system, while developing a minimum viable product within two weeks using Move programming language, Aptos Python & Typescript SDK, and ReactJS. Experience at Pegasystems included integrating Meta's LLaMA 2 model with Pega Launchpad and creating a dataset for fine-tuning the model. Sudipta is pursuing a Master of Technology in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, having previously earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Engineering & Management.