# Siddhartha Dutta

> Siddhartha Dutta is an Indian software engineer, founder and CEO of Marlin Labs, and a former researcher at Adobe and Inria.

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- Created: 2024-04-19T18:11:16.538Z
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**Siddhartha Dutta** is a software engineer, co-founder, and CEO of Marlin Labs, creators of the [Marlin Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin), a verifiable computing protocol. [\[1\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  
  
# Education  
  
Dutta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. [\[1\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  
  
# 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. [\[1\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  
  
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](https://iq.wiki/wiki/zilliqa), a high-throughput public [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) platform. [\[1\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  
  
He left [Zilliqa](https://iq.wiki/wiki/zilliqa) in 2018 and founded [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) alongside Prateesh Goyal and [Roshan Raghupathy](https://iq.wiki/wiki/roshan-raghupathy). Together, they gained support and financial backing from large venture capitals and exchanges, including [Binance](https://iq.wiki/wiki/binance), [Electric Capital](https://iq.wiki/wiki/electric-capital), and Michael Arrington. [\[1\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)[\[2\]](#cite-id-uq7lw9mgrl)  
  
# Interviews  
  
## About Marlin  
  
On June 10th, 2019, [CoinDesk](https://iq.wiki/wiki/coindesk) published an article about [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) gaining $3 million in seed funding from [Binance Labs](https://iq.wiki/wiki/binance-labs), Arrington XRP, [Electric Capital](https://iq.wiki/wiki/electric-capital), NGC, and other investors. In the article, Dutta discussed how the [Marlin Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) was making improvements to bandwidth on [blockchains](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) using relayers: [\[3\]](#cite-id-9wtetu7tvyi)  
  
> “[Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) is a leader in a new class of infrastructure startups in [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) that are [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/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](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) tries to do this, every [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) introduces these single points of failure.”  
  
> “Most of the [Ethereum](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum) miners, [Bitcoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/bitcoin) miners or even those professional [staking](https://iq.wiki/wiki/staking) companies, they already have good bandwidth connections. All those [nodes](https://iq.wiki/wiki/node) would be interested in merging [mining](https://iq.wiki/wiki/mining) along with [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) so that they can also get paid for that bandwidth their spending anyways.”  
  
At the end of the article, he shared [Marlin’s](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) main focus: [\[3\]](#cite-id-9wtetu7tvyi)  
  
> “The project itself is about high-performance networking infrastructure for the decentralized ecosystem. … The faster [nodes](https://iq.wiki/wiki/node) can communicate, the faster you can get things done.”  
  
In an Accesswire article from June 12th, 2019, Dutta commented on the future of [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) and their service to [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) communities, stating: [\[4\]](#cite-id-2eq0wuk5bx7)  
  
> “Networks are the backbone of [peer-to-peer](https://iq.wiki/wiki/peer-to-peer-trading-p2p) 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](https://iq.wiki/wiki/peer-to-peer-trading-p2p) industry excites us the most.”