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Gurkaran Sahni

Senior Blockchain Engineer

๐Ÿ“ Bangalore, India

๐ŸŸขAping In

Blockchain and Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building protocol infrastructure, wallets, indexers and cross chain executions. Built systems across EVM, RWA, DeFi, AI agents and compliant asset workflows. Secured $4.6M onchain funds via whitehat, led ICO/IDO launches raising over $1M, and presented at Singapore Fintech Festival 2024.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 50,000 โ€“ 70,000

Skills

EVM / Ethereum9/10
Solidity9/10
JavaScript9/10
Smart Contract Security & Auditing9/10
ethers.js / viem8/10
Foundry (8/10)Hardhat (8/10)Indexers & Blockchain Backend (8/10)TypeScript (8/10)Cross-Chain Infrastructure (8/10)DeFi Protocol Development (8/10)ERC-2535 / ERC-4626 / ERC-3643 (8/10)RWA Tokenization (8/10)AI Agents (LangGraph, LangSmith) (7/10)Slither / Echidna / Fuzzing (7/10)n8n / Pinecone (AI Tooling) (6/10)Polkadot / Substrate (6/10)Solana (6/10)Kafka / Spark (Data Engineering) (5/10)Go (5/10)

Work Experience

CTO, Cofounder

Nomo

Feb 2025 โ€” Jan 2026

Built and launched a social-first AI agent enabling on-chain transactions via social platforms (X, YouTube, Telegram), acquiring 100+ early users. Architected blockchain and transaction layers, designed AI agent Intent layer using consensus, execution and verification engine. Collaborated with Berachain, Solana, and Polkadot ecosystems. Contributed to a $50K LOI from a family office.

Senior Blockchain Engineer

rootVX

Apr 2024 โ€” Jan 2025

Owned the blockchain vertical for RWA and fintech infrastructure aligned with VARA and MiCA frameworks. Built backend for Finternet (Infosys and BIS collaboration). Built EVM indexers, escrow contracts, cross-chain payment infrastructure. Designed modular upgradeable contract architecture using ERC-2535, ERC-4626, and ERC-3643 (T-REX).

Consultant

Consultant

Jan 2023 โ€” Mar 2024

Led product launch for Follows (raised $600K+). Secured $4M+ for SuperSushiSamurai (Top 10 on Blast network). Secured SmartFinance contracts with TVL $500K. Created Meinstein AI decentralized data sharing platform, led blockchain and AI team (raised $100K).

Senior Software Engineer

Bitbns

Jul 2020 โ€” Aug 2023

Led cross-functional team of 5 for Blockchain division. Worked on exchange order matching, arbitrage and snipe bots. Launched Playota (Ethereum-based fantasy game) and Bitdroplet (decentralised digital asset management platform). Drove end-to-end audit process with OpenZeppelin and Hacken. Supervised development on Polkadot, Solana, and StarkWare with focus on gas optimization and MEV protection.

Intern

GAP Inc.

May 2019 โ€” Jul 2019

Built real-time data hydration service consuming events from Kafka, routing to Spark for analytics.

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

BTech ยท Computer Science and Engineering

2016 โ€“ 2020