Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Built a Defi startup with expertise in liquid staking on chains like Avalanche, Solana
• Implemented one-of-a-kind cross-chain message passing using the Threshold Signature Scheme for Multi-party Computation using P2P communication
• https://xtake.medium.com/announcing-xtake-finance-liquid-staking-on-avalanche-707f42d727f4
• Startup acquired by https://persistence.one/
• Built liquid staking on the Binance chain for Persistence accruing a TVL of > $4M: https://bnb.pstake.finance/
• Worked on building a decentralized exchange on the Persistence chain: https://www.dexter.zone/

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Worked with Stader Labs (https://www.staderlabs.com/) to build a PoC of their liquid staking solution for the Solana blockchain.
• Worked with some other clients based on EVM and Cosmos-SDK chains.

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021 · 6 mos

• Optimized GraphQL auth query generation, resulting in a 10x improvement in query latency.
• Benchmarked and optimized the whole GraphQL layer to account for only 0.13% of query execution time, adding an improvement of 33% in overall query latency.
• Helped design and integrate Apollo Federation support into the GraphQL API, enabling Dgraph to be used with other GraphQL services in an ecosystem.
• Helped team members with understanding the codebase, PR reviews, and feature documentation.
• Helped grow the open-source community through community calls and helping users on the community forum.
• Maintained dgraph4j - a gRPC based Dgraph client for Java.

Jan 2020 – Nov 2020 · 10 mos

• Designed, built, and maintained a declarative, schema-driven, auto-generated, GraphQL API layer on top of Dgraph, with a vision to interface a UI application directly to Dgraph without the need of an intermediate backend.
• Added support for integrating custom business logic, including JavaScript lambda functions to support serverless deployments.
• Discovered and solved various concurrency issues around GraphQL schema storage, and long-standing bugs in enterprise backup-restore functionality.

Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed a command-line Java tool from scratch to perform automated Dynamic Application Security Testing of APIs for OWASP Top 10 risks like SQL injection, TLS validation, etc.
• Worked in a micro-service architecture based, multi-module internal RBAC web application and developed 2 new Angular and Spring Boot modules for automating tasks performed by different groups within CyberSecurity.

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos

• Contributed to VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator), an open-source, cross-platform, non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and MLT framework.
• Setup the android build and rewrote some UI components in QML to fit smaller screens.

Dec 2015 – Jun 2016 · 6 mos · Jodhpur and Jaipur

• Made a cross-platform app using Meteor framework for α–release.
• Developed an iOS app for β–release of Edurer.
• Developed an Android app for product launch.
• Website Designing.