Hello!

Email: moc.liamg@inamosyajleen

About Me

I was previously building Eclipse: Ethereum's fastest L2, powered by the Solana Virtual Machine. Prior to that, I was a quantitative researcher at Citadel in the commodities group. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a triple major in computer science, mathematics, and business administration in May 2019.

My research projects focused on type systems, differential privacy, and highly-scalable machine learning systems.

Selected Research

PrivGuard: I worked with Prof. Joseph Near and Prof. Dawn Song to define a type system capable of automatically enforcing popular privacy and security regulations, including GDPR and HIPAA.	2022
Duet: This is a type system that allows developers to check their code for differential privacy, statically and automatically. I used dedicated hardware (Intel SGX) and popular machine learning algorithms to build privacy-preserving services.	2019
Cirrus: I worked with Prof. Randy Katz in the UC Berkeley RISELab to build a highly-scalable machine learning framework that runs in a serverless environment using AWS Lambda.	2019

Relevant Media Coverage

Blockchain Builder Eclipse Labs Raises $50M Ahead of Layer-2's Mainnet Debut: Modular blockchain Eclipse has secured $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Placeholder and Hack VC, bringing its total funding to $65 million.	2024
Neel Somani - Eclipse, L2s, and Ecosystem Building: We begin with an overview of Neel's personal journey in crypto, from exploring Cosmos and appchains, to thinking about Rollups-as-a-Service, to now building an L2.	2023
Ex-Terra Developer Neel Somani Raises $15M for Cross-chain Rollups: Somani's new project, Eclipse, is designed to be deployed on multiple chains in case a Terra-like event happens again.	2022
This 24-year-old quit his job at hedge-fund powerhouse Citadel to build anew on the Terra blockchain — which collapsed two months later: "I recognize this was a setback, but also it comes [with] the territory. I knew what I was getting myself into when I quit my job to do crypto."	2022