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Hrishikesh Thakkar

Lead Software Engineer

Remote, US and India

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Founding Engineer at Airstack W3 Inc with expertise in Web3, AI agents, blockchain indexing, and high-performance Go-based microservices. Background in full-stack development at PayPal and Visa. Specializes in DeFi integrations, smart contracts, NFTs, and onchain functionalities.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 90,000 โ€“ 140,000

Skills

Web3/DeFi Integration9/10
Blockchain Indexing (Substreams/Subgraphs)8/10
Go8/10
GraphQL8/10
NFTs/ENS/POAPs8/10
Java (8/10)Smart Contracts (8/10)JavaScript (7/10)Postgres (7/10)ReactJS (7/10)Farcaster (7/10)gRPC (7/10)SpringBoot (7/10)MongoDB (7/10)NodeJS (7/10)Kafka (6/10)Python (6/10)Android Development (6/10)Solidity (6/10)Rust (4/10)

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer

Airstack W3 Inc

Sept 2022 โ€” Present

Founding Engineer for Senpi AI. Built AI agent for crypto trades based on custom rule-based strategies. Led R&D for Hyperliquid Integration. Developed AI skills for tracking early token buyers. Reduced transaction speed by 15%. Designed AI plugins for onchain functionalities (swaps via 0x and Privy). Developed Real Time Notifications via Push, Android, iOS, Telegram, Farcaster. Built high-speed composable GraphQL/Go APIs and low-latency Go microservices for NFTs, ENS, POAPs, Web3 Socials. Deployed blockchain indexing services using Substreams and Subgraphs. Reduced image processing costs by 30%. Led offchain reverse resolution for Coinbase Identities. Spoke at ETH Global events.

Software Developer II

PayPal Inc.

May 2021 โ€” Sept 2022

Full-Stack Developer for Collections and Recovery Team. Built low-latency, multi-threaded Java Spring Batch Jobs. Developed UI/UX using ReactJS and NodeJS for CFPB compliance initiative. Designed high-level and low-level component interactions. Conducted tech talks on Blockchain and DeFi.

Software Developer

Visa Inc.

Jul 2019 โ€” May 2021

Primary Android Developer for BizReceipts app. Developed new User Role with REST APIs and UI controls. Enhanced app security with 2FA oAuth using Android Biometrics and AES Encryption. Built backend APIs using SpringBoot and Java. Set up Splunk monitoring alerts and dashboards for production failures.

Education

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

Post Graduate Diploma ยท Software Development, Blockchain Specialization

2020 โ€“ 2021

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Technology ยท Information Technology

2015 โ€“ 2019