Summary
Koushik Muthe is a blockchain-focused computer science undergrad and serial founder with eight years of hands-on experience building Web3 products and research programs. He co-founded Zoth.io to build an RWA stack for private credit and now leads Halo, blending product strategy with deep technical expertise in Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, IPFS and cryptography. A former Blockchain at Berkeley researcher and visiting student at UC Berkeley, he pairs academic rigor with practical wins—10+ international hackathon awards and multiple OCI and Google Cloud certifications. He has led large student research communities and run cross-disciplinary labs that nurtured 100+ members, showing a penchant for decentralized, non-hierarchical team models. His background includes corporate innovation roles at AB InBev and applied research at Nanyang Technological University, signaling experience across startup, enterprise and academic environments. Notably, he combines product leadership with low-level protocol interests, making him equally comfortable on strategy decks and blockchain stacks.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Bachelor of Arts Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at SRM University, AP