Arjun Bhuptani
Founder & Chief Researcher at Everclear Foundation
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolArjun Bhuptani is a founder and research-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building trust-minimized cross-chain systems and developer infrastructure from Lisbon. As founder and former CEO of Everclear (fka Connext), he led development of a modular protocol for secure generalized communication between blockchains, contributing deep Solidity expertise to core components like TransactionManager. He co-created Moloch DAO, helping define one of the most widely forked DAO frameworks, and continues to ship back-end primitives such as channel providers for WalletConnect and event handlers for Connext. Comfortable moving between research, protocol design, and hands-on engineering, he balances product leadership with low-level smart contract implementation. Notably, his contributions reveal a focus on reliable cross-chain messaging, liquidity operations, and integrating subgraph/messaging services—areas that require both formal reasoning and pragmatic systems work. Based in Lisbon with a background in physics and philosophy from Colgate, he brings a rigorous, interdisciplinary approach to decentralized systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics and Philosophy, Bachelor's degree Physics and Philosophy at Colgate University
English
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
solidity10
typescript10
standard-library10
f10
web3js10
ethereum10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
smart-contracts10
protocols10
c-library10
common-library10
walletconnect10
typescripts10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
connext/monorepo
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Connext is a modular stack for trust-minimized, generalized communication between blockchains.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 83 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Arjun primarily worked on the core smart contracts of the Connext protocol, focusing on the `TransactionManager` and related interfaces. They implemented functions for adding and removing liquidity, preparing, fulfilling, and canceling cross-chain transactions. The user also contributed to the `handler.ts` file, defining methods for processing various events within the Connext system and integrating with the subgraph and messaging services. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Solidity and cross-chain communication protocols.
ethereumcrosschainprotocolblockchaininteroperability
WalletConnect/walletconnect-monorepo
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
WalletConnect Monorepo
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Arjun primarily focused on developing a channel provider for the WalletConnect monorepo. Their contributions include the initial implementation of the channel provider, followed by refactoring to generalize and clean up the code. They also modified the code to use `_send()` and updated dependencies.
reactmonorepoethereumreact-nativewalletconnect
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