Madhavan Malolan
Co-Founder at Reclaim Protocol (YC W21)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMadhavan Malolan is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 13 years of engineering experience, currently building Reclaim Protocol (YC W21) in New York to deliver instantaneous, compliant verifications using AI and cryptography. He leads product, engineering, and research to produce a global system that drives verification costs to under a dollar with no humans in the loop, serving large enterprises across hiring, lending, and loyalty. His background spans core search relevance infrastructure at Microsoft and high-scale consumer audio engineering at Samosa Labs, giving him deep systems and product instincts. He helped seed Reclaim from verification needs at Questbook, where AI agents now autonomously manage grant workflows and claims validation. An advocate of open source cryptography, he has fully open sourced his team’s crypto libraries under AGPL and enjoys whiteboarding technical depth for curious partners. He combines practical product focus with cryptographic and AI research to solve real-world verification problems few teams can address end-to-end.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, SSC, HSC, SSC at New Era Senior Secondary SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, English
Github Skills (44)
expressjs10
react-native-ui-components10
targeting9
ui-components9
applescript9
react-native9
javascript9
solidity9
blockchain9
server9
ethereum9
notification9
cli-application9
nodejs9
react9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
reclaimprotocol/blog
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
madhavanmalolan/express-oauth-any
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
An express library that has the most popular oauth routes pre-defined. All you need to do is provide the keys.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
expressjsdefinedto-doexpresskeys
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