Some highlights: won ETHIndia 2024 with zkRail, coauthored ERC-7518 for globally compliant RWA tokenization, built the first ERC-4337 multichain wallet, and developed core infrastructure for EIP-7702 and EIP-2771 meta-transaction relayers.
The Story
I had a turning point at age 11 when I picked up "Head First Programming" from a bookstore. The world wasn't the same anymore. Just layers of abstractions. Physics became an interface to the API of the Fundamental Nature of Reality, one whose implementation I could not take a peek at.
"How does magic work? You wave a wand and say the right words in the right order and you control the physical world. But then you realize there really is something like magic right here: programming." George Hotz
I had found magic in programming. In being able to create so much change with just a couple of keystrokes. I was hooked.
Fast forward 7 years. Professional experience as a freelancer, working with global clients, but still stuck at Kota cramming for IIT-JEE. When COVID lockdowns started, I took it as a blessing in disguise. I had enough of the rat race. I was out.
This felt like the hardest decision I had ever made. It was not easy to convince my very conventional family that their 18-year-old was going on a path so unwonted. But through countless arguments, they reluctantly agreed.
My first full-time opportunity was at a London-based startup building a decentralized censorship-resistant podcasting platform. It was here I truly started to appreciate web3: a world where you don't need to implicitly trust, where actions are transparent, where power belongs to the people. A world built by misfits. A world where I belonged.
Awards
1st place with zkRail, ZK-powered UPI to crypto rails
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana, national science fellowship by IISc
National Talent Search Examination, top 1000 nationally
Publications
Ethereum standard for compliant real-world asset tokenization with dynamic transfer restrictions, partition-based rights management, and cross-chain interoperability.
Draft, Ethereum EIPsExperience
thirdweb / Software Engineer
Jul 2024 - Nov 2025Remote / SF
Worked on Engine, the web3 backend builders have been dreaming of. Sophisticated nonce management for transaction inclusion at scale across chains, smart backend wallets, KMS integration. Also designed and built Vault, a non-custodial key management service secured with AWS Nitro Enclaves.
Zoniqx / Lead Architect
Jul 2022 - Jun 2024Hyderabad / Remote
Led a major project rewrite, co-authored ERC-7518 for dynamic compliance rules processing. Built the first compliant RWA tokenization layer on XRPL. Architected Heimdall (enterprise web3 operational layer) and CompliTO (globally compliant security token transfers).
Biconomy / Software Engineer
Nov 2021 - May 2022Dubai / Remote
Built and shipped 3 platforms in 3 months. Led the gasless infrastructure revamp processing millions of transactions for clients like JP Morgan. Built the world's first multichain ERC-4337 smart contract wallet as a weekend hackathon POC.
Libertas Network / Senior Fullstack Developer
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021London / Remote
First full-time role. Built a blockchain-based decentralized censorship-resistant podcasting platform using IPFS, Node, and Ethereum. This is where I truly started to appreciate web3 and the promise it held.