Currently I work on engine within thirdweb (https://github.com/thirdweb-dev/engine) which is the web3 backend builders have been dreaming of. It handles nonce management and has sophisticated nonce management to maximise transaction inclusion at scale across chains. Along with really nifty features like smart backend wallets (create smart account in 1 API call!), KMS wallets, extensions and more.

But more about me...

A bonafide geek with a never-ending passion for innovation.

Lots of big words. But seriously though, 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.

Eleven-year-old me had discovered something truly special with programming. This ability to do something so real, with words that felt so arbitrary.

"How does magic work?"
"You wave a wand and say the right words in the right order and you control the physical world."

"I remember first reading Harry Potter and thinking man if I was in this world I would study so hard. I would try so hard to be so good at magic."

"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. In creating what didn't exist before. I was hooked.

I had found my calling.

Fast forward 7 years, where I now have professional software development experience working as a freelancer, and engaging with global clients. Still stuck at Kota, trying to cram for IITJEE. When the COVID lockdowns started, I took this as a blessing in disguise, deciding that I have had enough of the rat race. I was out.

At this time, this felt like the hardest decision I had ever made. It was really difficult for my very conventional family to accept that their 18-year-old was going on a path so unwonted. It was not easy to convince them, but through countless arguments and quarrels, they reluctantly agreed.

I found my first full-time opportunity as a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer at a London-based startup, working on a blockchain-based decentralized censorship-resistant podcasting platform. I had some experience with web3 protocols before, while I was freelancing. But it was only now that I truly started to appreciate web3 and the promise it held. A world where you don't need to implicitly trust, with your data safe, and all actions transparent. A world that brought power back to where it belongs: the people. From centralized conglomerates to P2P. A world built by misfits, a world where I belonged.

I joined Biconomy soon after, initially starting as a frontend engineer, but transitioning to more of a full-stack role, working on tools and services that made the everyday lives of web3 developers easier. I learned a lot here and had the chance to interact with some really brilliant people.

I left trying to start an account abstraction wallet product of my own, didn't work out and, then started working at Zoniqx (previously Tassets, where I worked as Lead Architect).

At Zoniqx I worked on a major project rewrite, co-authored ERC7518, a cutting edge security token standard for dynamic compliance rules processing. The principles were consolidated into what we call DyCIST, and we used it to build the first compliant RWA tokenization layer on XRPL in partnership with them.