Atharva Amritkar
Chief at Arcane Build
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAtharva Amritkar is a builder and early-stage tech leader with ~5 years of hands-on experience in Web3, DeFi, and reproducible build systems, currently heading Arcane Build. An IIT Kharagpur student and prolific open-source contributor (GSoC, Summer of Bitcoin, Summer of Nix), he helped productionize Fedimint’s Nix-based CI/CD and automation and shipped a private blockchain solution sold to multiple pharmaceutical firms. He has bridged research and product work—from a Canadian hospital PoC combining federated learning with permissioned blockchain and ZK proofs to pitching Zkare to Vitalik and securing grants—while supporting venture funds (Hashed, Bankless Ventures) on infra diligence. Comfortable across DevOps, Solidity, and cryptoeconomic design, he also claims a hand in an AI agent that reached a $33M market cap, highlighting a knack for turning experimental tech into market-facing products.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's and masters degree, Economics, Bachelor's and masters degree, Economics at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
French, Japanese, Hindi, Marathi, English
Github Skills (13)
automation10
automations10
build-system10
nix10
rust9
docker8
dockers8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
bitcoin6
bitcoins6
p2p5
lightning-network5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fedimint/fedimint
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Federated E-Cash Mint
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 35 commits, 18 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Atharva primarily focused on setting up and configuring the build environment for the project using Nix. They introduced Nix build files, implemented shell hooks to preserve build artifacts, and integrated Nix flakes for dependency management and reproducible builds. Furthermore, the user automated the build process, including supporting submodules and defining build inputs.
e-cashethereump2plightningblockchain
wiredhikari/hikari-overlay
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Just another collection ebuilds of my apps and those I use
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 8 months
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