Rodrigo Villar

I am a software engineer focused on distributed systems and databases. I currently work at Ava Labs, building blockchain infrastructure with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Experience

• Software Engineer at Ava Labs [12/24 - Present]: contributor to Firewood, a merkelized, compaction-free database built specifically for blockchain data.
• Developer Relations Engineer at Ava Labs [07/24 - 12/24]: contributor to the HyperSDK, a VM SDK for building high-performance blockchains.
• Developer Relations Intern at Ava Labs [07/23 - 11/24]: built lots of PoC VMs :P.
• Course Instructor at Cornell University [01/23 - 12/23]: created and taught a for-credit technical blockchain course.