Hi, I'm Anish!
I'm a script kiddie, tech bro and internet magic money enthusiast. I'm a full time student also working full time web3/blockchain and have been in the web3 space since I was in 8th grade. I'm currently building out a fintech startup in Stealth and interning at Ripple (XRP). My 3 personality traits are my PC, my motorcycle and gamb- er trading cryptocurrency.
I've been a part of:
The Libertas Tribune - Buisness law, ethics, and social entrepreneurship
Blockchain @ UCI President
Blockchain Hackathons
Cerd.gg, a platform for esports education
What I've worked on:
Co-Founder
Collegiate Esports Recruitment Directory (CERD) (Acquired by eFuse.gg)- Connected high school esports athletes across North America with esports programs run at the collegiate level.
- Ran combines/tournaments for coaches to scout talent and many esports athletes got scholarships for gaming in college.
- Managed a cross functional team of 7
- Got Acquired by eFuse.gg
Marketing Lead
Collegiate Esports Pipeline / Cybersecurity Intern eFuse (Acquired CERD)- Influencer partnership strategy and execution
- Co-led High School Leadership Initiative and built a 12+ person team
- Event/Tournament Planning and Execution
- Website Penetration Testing
Esports Consultant
Athletic Consultants Asia- Conducted thorough general and collegiate focused analysis of Esports Athletes
- Provided advice on collegiate esports recruitment in the US
- Produced various content on collegiate esports
- Assisted in support for various esports related questions and pathways
University Partner
Crescent Fund- Student run VC fund enriching the Southern Californian startup ecosystem. Helped socal startups through our network and by writing $25k checks.
Accelerator Growth Intern
Ripple- Replaced a startup management platform with a custom Notion dashboard and automations, achieving $30K in annual savings
- Authored technical documentation streamlining the migration of startup management and metric tracking systems, and ensuring consistent knowledge transfer and internal systemic continuity.
- Provided strategic advice to startups, aiding their integration with the XRPL blockchain and enhancing their overall strategy.
- Optimized operational workflows through custom automations, significantly saving time and enhancing cohort engagement.
- Developed a streamlined business and engineering-centric judging framework for startups, reducing time spent on judging and ranking by 60%.
- Designed and implemented a data-driven tracking system to track startup performance, program efficacy and created intuitive data dashboards for cross-functional team use
President
Blockchain at UCI- Co-authored a research paper proposing a hybrid AES-ECC encryption scheme for TRON zk-SNARKs analyzing current and potential protocol applications.
- Leading various project teams, overseeing a cohort of 25+ developers, researchers, and DeFi team members every quarter delivering blockchain projects for clients such as TRON, Arbitrum/Offchain Labs, etc.
- Developed and deployed smart contracts for ERC20 and ERC721 tokens across various EVM-based chains
- Co-developed a decentralized voting mechanism using ERC & BEP-721 tokens to decentralize and automate voting for “Blockchain Person of the Year 2021” as a part of VotingDAO
- Organized and moderated panels at numerous seminars, in addition to coordinating 25+ workshops and hackathons, collaborating with major blockchain entities like Harmony, Ripple, AVAX, TRON, etc.
- Cultivated a network of 50+ blockchain organizations, across the US, Asia, and EU resulting in strategic partnerships and opportunities.
- Created and implemented a strategy combining fundraising and contract-based work accruing over $150,000 in monetary support
- Created a data dashboard using Dune Analytics that displayed real-time information about Ethereum volume sent per day for the last 7 days, utilizing SQL queries to retrieve and aggregate data into visualization