Siddhartha Dutta is a software engineer, co-founder, and CEO of Marlin Labs, creators of the Marlin Protocol, a verifiable computing protocol. ^[1]

Education

Dutta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. ^[1]

Career

Dutta began his tech career as a researcher at Adobe in 2015. While there, he gained two US patents for automatic illustration and text enrichment. In 2016, he became a researcher at Inria, the French national digital science and technology research institute. ^[1]

After leaving Inria, Dutta became a software engineer at Microsoft, working for the Cloud and Enterprise Group until 2017. In the same year, he became a core developer for Zilliqa, a high-throughput public blockchain platform. ^[1]

He left Zilliqa in 2018 and founded Marlin alongside Prateesh Goyal and Roshan Raghupathy. Together, they gained support and financial backing from large venture capitals and exchanges, including Binance, Electric Capital, and Michael Arrington. ^[1][2]

Interviews

About Marlin

On June 10th, 2019, CoinDesk published an article about Marlin gaining $3 million in seed funding from Binance Labs, Arrington XRP, Electric Capital, NGC, and other investors. In the article, Dutta discussed how the Marlin Protocol was making improvements to bandwidth on blockchains using relayers: ^[3]

“Marlin is a leader in a new class of infrastructure startups in crypto that are blockchain-agnostic and will dramatically increase network performance...If anyone is able to bribe just those single-digit relayers, you have brought down the network because they’re the ones responsible for all this communication. Now, if every blockchain tries to do this, every blockchain introduces these single points of failure.”

“Most of the Ethereum miners, Bitcoin miners or even those professional staking companies, they already have good bandwidth connections. All those nodes would be interested in merging mining along with Marlin so that they can also get paid for that bandwidth their spending anyways.”

At the end of the article, he shared Marlin’s main focus: ^[3]

“The project itself is about high-performance networking infrastructure for the decentralized ecosystem. … The faster nodes can communicate, the faster you can get things done.”

In an Accesswire article from June 12th, 2019, Dutta commented on the future of Marlin and their service to blockchain communities, stating: ^[4]

“Networks are the backbone of peer-to-peer applications. Several billion-dollar networking enterprises have enabled the largest Web 2.0 companies of today. The opportunity to be at the forefront of building the foundational technology necessary for the fast growing P2P industry excites us the most.”