Akshay Dahiya
Protocol Engineer And DeFi Researcher at PowerLoom Protocol
India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Dahiya is a protocol engineer and DeFi researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, blockchain, and AI-driven systems from prototype to production. He currently develops PowerLoom Protocol to ensure data integrity and on-demand rich data access in decentralized networks, and previously deployed 50+ smart contracts and bespoke tokenomics across multiple EVM chains as a freelance blockchain developer. His background blends rigorous research—contributing to ACM-published work on automated plagiarism detection at Georgia Tech—with product-focused engineering, having architected high-performance API gateways and real-time systems in industry. An active open-source contributor and mentor, he built Hydrus during Google Summer of Code and maintains semantic web tools at HydraEcosystem.org, reflecting a long-term interest in machine-readable web technologies. Akshay also applies AI and computer vision skills from multiple Udacity nanodegrees and an MS in Computer Science (4.0) to practical education and Web3 use cases. He’s as comfortable optimizing an Auth0-backed auth stack or Brotli-compressing APIs as designing evolving NFT mechanics and cross-chain Play2Earn experiences.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyFront End Web Developement Nanodegree, Front End Web Developement Nanodegree at UdacityBachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Deenbandhu Chotu Ram University of Science & Technology
English, Hindi
Github Skills (85)
flock10
python10
semantic-web10
entrypoint10
rest-api10
flask10
hydra10
rest10
rest-server10
restful-api10
semantic10
text-message9
ipfs9
specification9
hypermedia9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xadahiya/fsnd-multi-user-blog
Dec 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
PowerLoom/audit-protocol
Mar 2023 - Apr 2024
Core component of PowerLoom Protocol
Contributions:26 reviews, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 1 month
blockchaindistributed-systemsethereumfilecoinipfs
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