Heramb Podar

Currently, I am interning at DAOHQ, which is building the world's largest DAO marketplace as part of the operations and research team, increased the community size by more than 30%, presented at the MIT I corps Incubator program, raising over $2000 for customer segmentation purpose and improved hiring efficiency of the team by 45%.

Working on a cryptocurrency policy report to explain the domain of decentralized finance through the lens of its wider effects on security frameworks and the environment with Kaliya Young, a self-sovereign identity expert, as part of a fellowship under Harvard Innovation Labs. Some of the value network mappings we made can be found here.

Also, deploying a project using Google Maps API to geocode resources such as humanitarian aid centres and accommodation for Ukrainian refugees on an interactive dashboard at Reach4Help, a student-run non-profit.

Also deployed my own token as part of a hackathon project at IIT Bombay on the Ethereum chain, using Ropsten Test Network using Solidity. Etherscan deployment link can be found here.

Academically, I am a rising junior at IIT Roorkee where I am helping put together a blockchain society to spread the love for decentralisation among the IIT community!

-What gets me out of bed is meeting new people and helping them out(while being helped myself!), and building projects which will have a net positive contribution to society.

• I am good at taking initiative and owning things like when I decided to single-handedly revamp our closing ceremony slides for a 500 person hackathon I was organising, staying up all night to pull it off.

In terms of technical skills, I have some background in solidity and am competent in Python, which I have used for a few machine learning projects in the past. Along with this, I have a decent knowledge of the web3 ecosystem coming from the web3 projects I have built in the past.