Arjun Porwal is a Blockchain Software Engineer with 6 years of experience and 3+ years focused on full-stack Web3 development, specializing in Polkadot, Ethereum, and Solana ecosystems. He leads development of the widely used polkadot.js ecosystem and has built production dApps and tooling such as Otro (accounts abstraction) and XCM Tracer for real-time cross-chain visibility. At Polkadex he revamped the Orderbook UI and cross-chain flows, driving major user and trading-volume growth, and at BlockDeep Labs he delivered treasury-funded audits and NFT proofs-of-work. Hands-on with Rust, TypeScript, React/Next.js, GraphQL and AWS, he blends frontend polish with backend robustness and protocol-level insight. An active open-source contributor, his polkadot-js front-end fixes and parachain metadata updates reflect a pragmatic focus on developer UX across the Polkadot landscape. He’s known for solving complex cross-chain problems and shipping end-to-end products that improve both developer and trader experiences.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:32 reviews, 103 PRs, 74 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Arjun primarily contributed to the front-end of the `polkadot-js/apps` repository, focusing on user interface enhancements and bug fixes. Their commits included adding metadata for new parachains like Polkadex, and disabling unreachable RPC endpoints within the application's configuration. Furthermore, they implemented fixes related to assets and bounty pages, and updated various components to ensure proper functioning. These changes showcase a commitment to improving the user experience and maintaining the application's overall stability.
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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Arjun Porwal - Blockchain Software Engineer at BlockDeep Labs