Nikhil Ranjan
CTO And Co-founder at Polkassembly
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNikhil Ranjan is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with 13 years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems and Web3 protocols, specializing in Rust, Substrate, and WASM integrations. He led Polkassembly from prototype to a million-user governance platform on Polkadot and Kusama, architecting Rust backends, secure wallet flows, staking mechanics, and AI-driven proposal tooling while scaling an open-source team to 20 engineers. Previously he contributed to launching Polkadot and Kusama at Parity Technologies and has hands-on experience across front-end and back-end stacks (TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js) and CI-driven testing frameworks. His open-source work spans UI improvements in polkadot-js/apps and web3uikit, structured logging for Mattermost, and test automation for Astar’s dApp staking and RPC flows. Comfortable in async, high-TPS environments, he combines deep protocol design with pragmatic product shipping and security-first incident response. Based in Berlin, he blends developer relations and community-driven governance experience with rare, production-grade expertise in inscription tokens and EVM deployments on Kusama.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampBachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (48)
substrate10
javascript10
web-application10
back-end-development10
storybook10
testing10
evm10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
cicd10
mattermost10
uid10
react-testing-library10
polkadot-js10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
AstarNetwork/Astar
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The dApp hub for blockchains of the future
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 16 commits, 23 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily focused on developing and implementing tests within the Astar blockchain repository. They set up test suites for dapp staking and RPC functionalities, integrating these tests into the project's continuous integration workflow using GitHub Actions. The contributions include writing test cases, integrating testing tools, and ensuring thorough testing of core blockchain features, including EVM contract interactions, balance transfers, and dapp staking features.
astar-networkkusamastakingsubstratejsonrpc
mattermost/mattermost
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 51 PRs, 130 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nikhil's commits primarily focused on converting existing code to use structured logging within the Mattermost platform. They addressed multiple files across different areas, including jobs, the application layer, web handlers, and database store components. The changes involved integrating structured logging using `mlog` across various functions and modules, enhancing the logging capabilities of the system. This indicates a focus on improving the maintainability, debuggability, and monitoring of the Mattermost platform.
golangsecuredevelopment-lifecyclelifecyclereact-native
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