Gautam Dhameja
Founder & CTO at Proferent
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGautam Dhameja is a founder and CTO who designs and ships production AI systems for environments where sensitive data must remain local, specializing in on-device, on-premise, and private deployments. He combines hands-on engineering—model selection, fine-tuning, retrieval architectures, and inference infrastructure—with advisory work for CTOs on trade-offs around cost, latency, privacy, and maintainability. Previously he built and scaled Parity’s Solution Engineering organization to 35+ engineers, owning delivery of security-sensitive Substrate and Polkadot systems, and remains an active contributor to the Substrate blockchain platform. His background includes building hyper-scale cloud and IoT platforms at Microsoft and leading blockchain-to-production efforts at BigchainDB, giving him a rare mix of platform engineering and delivery leadership. Based in Berlin, he helps teams translate AI-assisted tooling into real productivity gains while keeping systems fast, private, and affordable. Outside work he’s a fan of dark roast coffee and well-sharpened pencils, a small habit that signals his preference for pragmatic craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Oxford Executive Strategy Programme, Business Strategy, Oxford Executive Strategy Programme, Business Strategy at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordBusiness Process Design for Strategic Management , Business Management, Business Process Design for Strategic Management , Business Management at MIT Sloan Executive EducationBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
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Github Skills (19)
substrate10
clientside10
polkadot-js10
blockchain10
webclient10
nodejs10
rust10
polkadot10
nodes10
parity9
web3js8
azure6
sentinel6
iaas6
ethereum6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/substrate
Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 45 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily contributes to the Substrate blockchain platform by implementing and modifying runtime modules. Their work includes adding new modules and updating existing ones, demonstrating a focus on core blockchain functionality. The commits involve code changes within the runtime, including storage definitions, event handling, and dispatchable functions. They have also focused on documentation and API implementations.
substraterustblockchainparitypolkadot
gautamdhameja/gautamdhameja.github.io
Feb 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 2 months
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