Summary
Prajjwal Chittori is a Senior Backend Engineer with ~6 years of experience building high-scale fintech and blockchain infrastructure, currently architecting the core systems behind ether.fi’s crypto-native, deposit-backed Visa product. He has shipped real-time payment and settlement platforms at Visa handling 1000+ TPS, built Rust and Solidity staking contracts securing $1B+ in assets at Stader Labs, and founded Veri5 — a real-time identity verification API for banks and PSPs. Comfortable across C++, Rust, Python, Go (learning), Solidity and distributed systems tech like Kafka, Hazelcast, Redis and Kubernetes, he focuses on low-latency authorization, settlement flows and secure bridges between DeFi and traditional rails. A pragmatic founder and engineer, Prajjwal has repeatedly moved projects from MVP to production and helped onboard Tier-1 banks into live payment networks. An APS-certified professional based in the Cayman Islands, he brings both protocol-level security experience and product-minded engineering to financial infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Delhi College of Engineering