About

Vedant is an engineer who likes building systems that sit between infrastructure and product. The strongest work is not isolated protocol experimentation; it is taking complicated financial or distributed-system primitives and turning them into something people can actually use.

The career has moved through three layers: traditional software engineering, open-source blockchain and protocol work, and founding-stage fintech ownership. He did not stay in protocol engineering. He moved closer to the customer—into systems where payment rails, user experience, compliance, reliability, and operations all interact.

That combination is the point: financial infrastructure, distributed systems, startup product ownership, and enough protocol depth to reason about irreversible state, signing boundaries, and on-chain / off-chain synchronization. The same habits transfer to backend, platform, and payments roles that have nothing to do with a particular chain.

He prefers learning primitives by building them, is comfortable owning ambiguous problems across layers, and cares as much about whether merchants and sponsors will adopt a flow as whether the state machine is correct.

Outside the core work, he prototypes quickly. ZepPay won first prize at ETHDenver 2025 for Coinbase Onramp and stablecoins. Chess Clash, a solo ETHGlobal NYC hack, explored social prediction around rivalries. Earlier, an educational constant-product AMM was a way to understand DeFi fundamentals by implementing them.

He is most relevant for software, product, backend, platform, payments, and founding engineering roles—fintech and otherwise.