Nikhil Acharya Prakash
Solana Foundation · Bangalore
I build crypto infrastructure on Solana: token data, RPC, transaction relaying and trading systems. Before the Foundation, I was a founding engineer at Helius. Before crypto, I spent over a decade on networking, cloud platforms, unikernels and serverless. On the side I build tools for the Solana ecosystem and write about indexers and Rust.
Away from the keyboard I follow cricket, play tennis and chess, and read about history, evolution, math and astronomy.
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- pillar Ops platform for Solana validators: install, monitor, self-heal, upgrade. post src
- portfolio Self-hosted multi-wallet Solana portfolio tracker with P&L and an encrypted vault. post src
- brigade Pitch, not built: a wallet-native social network for Solana. post
- techshorts Tech news in ~60 words. A serverless pipeline: deduped, summarised, precomputed. post
- deep-learner Claude Code plugin that quizzes you on your own codebase. post
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- 2026-10-14 TechShorts: Designing a News Product With No Servers to Run
- 2026-10-01 deep-learner: A Claude Code Plugin That Quizzes You on Your Own Codebase
- 2026-09-05 Building a Self-Hosted Solana Portfolio Tracker with an Encrypted Vault
- 2026-07-03 Pillar: An Agent and Controller for Running Solana Validators
- 2026-04-21 Pitch: A Wallet-Native Social Network for Solana