○ Conduct in-depth analysis of blockchain working principles to identify and address performance bottlenecks, resulting in increased Transactions Per Second (TPS).○ Participate in development and testing of cutting-edge transaction scheduling algorithms within the Solana blockchain ecosystem.○ Integrate DPDK with solana blockchain in a seamless manner

**Network stack acceleration:**○ Achieve faster and more efficient network application performance by leveragingproven technologies such as DPDK, SR-IOV, and F-stack in C.○ Build high precision latency measurement setup for measuring back to backlatency of UDP/TCP packets.○ Work with XDP/AF-XDP for packet acceleration.○ Build upon Linux signal semantics through deep understanding○ Develop a multi-threaded, multiprocessing architecture.○ Explore high performance NICs and their respective softwares i.e onload andVMA**Open source contributions:**○ Contribute 17 patches to DPDK in various components○ Contribute 1 patch to F-stack.**Data management system for Design 2 Silicon:**○ Design and integrate mySQL database○ Implement back-end in python using sqlalchemy, flask and pandas framework.