I have been building software since 2021. Most recently, as a founding engineer at Trepa, I worked across protocol design, backend engineering, automation, and web and mobile clients, helping take a Solana prediction market from early protocol work to mainnet production. I love exploring new technologies, making an impact with the knowledge and experience I gain, working on products end to end, and I am a firm believer in high-agency work.

A lot of my learning has happened through building. In my undergrad, I learned Python through online coding communities, built small C projects, moved into Android development, and worked on apps like Nutrifit and EduJam. I joined Nirmaan Hyperloop in my first year and later became Software Lead, where I worked on the pod control system and helped connect the control interface with the PLC. Later at King's, I got to explore security engineering, software testing, and software systems for finance, which helped me think more carefully about correctness, risk, and how software behaves in high-stakes environments.

I have also spent a lot of time teaching and organizing. I co-founded Cerritus Coders to help students learn through project-based sessions, led workshops on Git, Android, open source, and blockchain, and later became the Google Developer Student Club Lead for my college. I have mentored developers through hackathons and programs, and I still care about making technical spaces easier to enter for newer builders.

Professionally, I have worked across backend and protocol engineering, developer experience, and production infrastructure. I built tooling for Hubble Protocol, worked on Solana developer education at the Solana Foundation, supported developers and wrote technical guides at Helius, and gave talks and workshops on Solana development.

Outside work, I like swimming, working out, and reading.

MSc in Advance Software Engineering

King's College London - 2024 - 2025

  • Key modules included Software Measurement and Testing, Security Engineering, and Software Engineering for Financial Systems.
  • Dissertation explores extracting generalizable strategies from single plan executions in robotic planning by identifying and removing non-affecting predicates, enabling task abstraction, reuse, and faster execution.

BE in Computer Engineering

Mumbai University - 2021 - 2024

  • Graduated with a 9.54 CGPA, with core focus on Software Architecture, Computer Networks, and Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
  • Final year project: Developed a Blockchain-based Grant System to enhance transparency and accountability in fund distribution.

Founding Engineer

Trepa - September 2025 - August 2026

  • Built and hardened a Solana precision prediction-market that ran 5K+ parimutuel pools and processed 85K+ predictions.
  • Owned protocol logic, account design, Rust smart contract development, and production hardening across two mainnet releases.
  • Built custom indexing, backend services, PostgreSQL data flows, production automation, and transaction infrastructure for real-time market operations.
  • Improved transaction submission speed by 5x and processed 240K+ sponsored transactions at a total cost of less than 2 SOL.
  • Worked across TypeScript, NestJS, Redis/BullMQ, mobile and web clients, and operational tooling to keep the system observable and reliable.
  • Led two external security audits with Adevar Labs and Phage, with zero critical findings.

Developer Experience Engineer

Helius - March 2024 - December 2024

  • Provided technical support and integration guidance to 100+ developers using RPC, Geyser, and Dedicated Nodes.
  • Contributor to Helius Rust SDK, implementing API support with testing and bug fixes.
  • Authored 7+ technical blog posts and comprehensive documentation, improving developer onboarding experience.

Developer Relations Intern

Solana Foundation - Summer 2023

  • Designed and delivered technical workshops on Solana program development using Rust/Anchor framework with TypeScript integration examples.
  • Mentored 20+ developers during hands-on coding sessions.

Software Intern

Hubble Protocol - Summer 2022

  • Built a bot in Rust to track critical DeFi transactions including liquidations, loans, and repayments.
  • Integrated Amazon SQS for real-time notifications, reducing response time.

Rewards and Tokenomics Protocol

Client: Crush Rewards - 2025

Implemented emission scheduling, burn and mint CPI flows, receipt-verification hardening, staking boosts, governance scripts, and tests.

Duel Escrow Protocol

Client: Showdown - 2025

Built and deployed a mainnet Solana duel escrow program for SOL and SPL entry fees, team matches, verifier-based resolution, protocol fees, reward claims, and account cleanup.

Solana DeFi Protocol

Client: Ultra Labs - March 2025

  • Architected and developed a collateralized lending protocol from scratch in under three months.
  • Engineered borrowing and lending flows with robust collateral handling and position management.
  • Implemented a thorough test suite and conducted mainnet testing with 83% code coverage.

Prediction Market Smart Contract

Client: Relative Finance - May 2024

  • Migrated prediction market smart contracts from Ethereum and Solidity to Solana and Rust in two months.
  • Optimized the contract architecture for Solana's account model and implemented comprehensive testing.

Superteam Mobile Website

Client: Superteam - February 2024

  • Built a comprehensive resource hub for Solana mobile development with curated tutorials and project ideas.
  • Reached 4,800+ organic visitors through community engagement.

Saganize: Solana Mobile SDKs

  • Developed SDK enabling seamless in-app Solana transactions for mobile dApps without custom wallet infrastructure.
  • 5th place in Global Grizzlython mobile track with 10,000+ participants and 813 submissions.
  • Received grants from Superteam and Solana Mobile.

Solana Priority Fee SDK

  • The SDK determines efficient priority fees for Solana transactions by analyzing recent network priority fees of writable accounts.
  • Priority fee is recommended via the Langchain framework. Reduces Solana transaction fees by up to 50%.

EduJam Android

eduJam is a university app with syllabus, weekly, academic and holiday timetables, to-do lists, and recent video lectures with notes in PDF form.

FillMyCycle iOS

Fill My Cycle is a lab evaluation sheet generator. It takes experiment marks and generates the respective evaluation sheet.

Nirmaan Hyperloop

Software Lead - 2021 - 2023

  • Designed and implemented a modular control system using PyQt5 and later PyEdifice for the Hyperloop Pod, integrating it with the PLC via a robust communication module.
  • Participated at European Hyperloop Week 2023 at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Google Developer Student Clubs

Chapter Lead - 2022 - 2023

Organized and hosted 23+ workshops and events on Google technologies including Jetpack Compose, Flutter, Angular, and Google Cloud.

Cerritus Coder

Founding Member - 2021

  • Co-founded a tech community aimed at helping beginners break into tech through open-source contributions and project-based learning.
  • Led hands-on workshops on Android development, Open Source, and Blockchain.

Vice Chancellor Scholarship

King's College London

Awarded a prestigious GBP 10,000 scholarship for postgraduate study, granted to outstanding India-domiciled students.

Mobile Track Winner

Grizzlython - Q1 2023

Placed 5th globally in the Mobile Track of Solana Grizzlython and built Saganize: Solana Mobile SDKs.

Top'50

Major League Hacking - 2023

The MLH Top 50 celebrates unique stories and meaningful contributions of hackers within the MLH community.

1st runner-up Unscript Hackathon

January 2022

Built a native Kotlin-based Hostel Management System with location-based attendance, student check-in, room allocation, and admin activity monitoring within 24 hours.