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Summary

I build crypto infrastructure on Solana. I’m at the Solana Foundation, where I work on the systems the ecosystem leans on: token data, transaction relaying with Kora, RPC monitoring and trading infrastructure. Before that I was a founding engineer at Helius, indexing NFTs and tokens and scaling RPC for Solana developers.

That comes on top of 15 years in systems software: WAN acceleration, switch operating systems, unikernels, and cloud and serverless platforms. Most of what makes a chain usable is unglamorous infrastructure, and that’s the part I like building.

Crypto: Solana, RPC and indexing, token data, transaction relaying, trading and validator infrastructure
Cloud & systems: cloud platforms, cloud-native services, serverless, distributed systems, networking
Languages: Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python, C/C++
Leadership: engineering standards, on-call and incident process, hiring, mentoring

Solana

I’ve been building on Solana full time since 2023.

  • Solana Foundation (May 2026 onwards): modernized Tokens, set up Kora on devnet and mainnet, built the trading infrastructure, and released a public RPC monitoring dashboard.
  • Helius (2023 to 2026): I joined as a founding engineer. I indexed compressed NFTs and NFTs as open standards, then regular tokens, token extensions and a new RWA indexer. I also built a global rate limiter and edge cache for RPC traffic, and worked on real-time gRPC and WebSocket streaming.
  • Indexing: I designed and wrote up a token transaction history indexer (problem, design).
  • Side projects: pillar for running validators, a self-custodial portfolio tracker, and a pitch for a wallet-native social network for Solana.
  • Writing: staking SOL from India, and using unikernels in Solana.

Experience

Solana Foundation (May 2026 - Present)

  • Modernized key products while cutting cost and vendor dependency. Led the Tokens rebuild, set up Kora on devnet and mainnet, and moved Breeze onto standard infrastructure. This cut data-processing costs and gave the Foundation more control over these products.
  • Designed and built the foundation of our trading infrastructure, with multi-region redundancy, monitoring and failover built in from day one.
  • Released a public RPC monitoring dashboard for RPC providers.
  • Set up a common engineering operating model: design, release and incident templates, on-call and escalation, and a “How to Build” guide used for onboarding.
  • Added monitoring and on-call coverage for operational gaps across products before they became customer-facing issues.

Helius, Bangalore - Founding Engineer/Principal Engineer (March 2023 - May 2026)

  • Led the initial efforts for User Management for the Helius Developer portal, which required a complete revamp of our management system.
  • Worked on indexing Solana’s cNFTs and NFTs as open standards and implemented several features like indexing regular tokens, token extensions and a new RWA indexer.
  • Implemented a global rate limiter and edge caching to rate limit and cache projects across the world.
  • Improved gRPC Solana WebSockets.

DigitalOcean, Bangalore - Engineering Manager/Technical Lead (September 2021 - February 2023)

  • Led a team responsible for integrating the Nimbella Serverless Platform into multiple regions as DigitalOcean Cloud Functions after the acquisition.
  • Built control plane services and APIs for deploying and managing Cloud Functions.
  • Delivered features such as Scheduled Functions and Serverless Function Eventing.

Nimbella, Bangalore - Founding Engineer/Technical Lead (September 2019 - August 2021)

  • Led the Nimbella integration effort with Netlify & Postman.
  • Managed the Integrations team to build Serverless Applications such as Commander for Slack & Microsoft Teams.
  • Integrated OpenWhisk API Gateway onto Nimbella Serverless Stack.

Arista, Bangalore - Member of Technical Staff (November 2017 - August 2019)

  • Developed network dissectors on Wireshark & Tcpdump for Arista proprietary protocol.
  • Implemented VRF and HA features for management interfaces on Arista switches.

IBM Research Centre, New York - Researcher (September 2018 - December 2018)

  • Conducted experiments and research on “Unikernels as processes,” leading to a paper publication in ACM SoCC Conference 2018.
  • Worked on running solo5 Unikernels as docker containers, eventually leading to the creation of Nabla containers.

Aryaka, Bangalore - Member of Technical Staff (July 2011 - September 2017)

  • Maintained & led the IP Acceleration Delivery Product Team.
  • Designed and developed features to improve resource utilization, bandwidth and connection throughput of Aryaka Cloud.
  • Developed protocols to support POP level redundancy, rate-limiting control plane packets and DDOS mitigation for IKE-V1.

Projects

  • 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

Earlier work

IncludeOS (2018-2019):

  • Ported NodeJs and Dpdk to IncludeOS.
  • Implemented an IPv6 stack with C++ with basic support for ping, NDP and Autoconf.
  • Supported running IncludeOS on Solo5 as a base unikernel.

Solo5 (2018):

  • Implemented a feature to generate a core file when a unikernel application crashes.
  • Improved network bandwidth by 3x using shared memory between the application and the kernel in solo5.
  • Designed a network backend agnostic design where user APIs are agnostic to various network backends such as tap device, DPDK and netmap.

Outside work

I follow cricket closely, and I play tennis and chess. I’m also fascinated by history, evolution, math and astronomy.

Education

BITS Pilani, Bangalore, India - Master of Technology

BMSCE, Bangalore, India - Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Science