$10,000
Repo Reward
SuperHack winner. A decentralised bounty platform paying out for open source contributions on Base.
BaseSoliditySuperHack, Feb 2024
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Ishan Lakhwani, fullstack and infrastructure
From Terraform
to the smart contract.
Senior fullstack engineer who owns the infrastructure too. Terraform, AWS, Fargate, RDS and Kubernetes underneath. React Native and Next.js on top. Rust and Solidity where the money moves.
Seven years of it, including the frontend team at Jar at 10M+ users, where a release either held or the whole support queue found out. That is where I learned what shipping reliable code actually costs.
Today I am Infrastructure Lead at Spout Finance. Before that, consumer apps on Solana at SendAI. Same person on the cluster, the app, the contract and the frontend.
Open to interesting work. Telegram is the fastest way to reach out to me.
Separately, I make AI UGC and launch videos with Higgsfield, Remotion and ffmpeg. creative.bluntbrain.com
One bad release at Jar meant 3,000 support tickets before lunch
Ishan Lakhwani, on leading the frontend team at Jar App
SpoutSendAIDxSaleJarFleek
Infrastructure
I own the cloud
Terraform, AWS, Fargate, RDS and Kubernetes. Environments, pipelines and the release path, not just the app on top of them.
Infra Lead
Spout Finance, today
What actually shipped.
$16K in hackathon prizes
112 public repos on GitHub$4,000
Chain Monsters
StarkHack winner. An on-chain monster battling game written in Cairo, with the full battle loop settled on StarkNet.
StarkNetCairoStarkHack, Mar 2024
$2,000
ZK Credit Score
ETH Bangkok winner. Credit scoring that proves creditworthiness without revealing the underlying balances.
ZK ProofsDeFiETH Bangkok, Dec 2023
20K+ downloads
NearMe
Built and published on the Solana Seeker dApp Store in two days, then went viral. 10K+ merchants accepting SOL, scraped worldwide. 4.2 stars across 1.1K+ reviews.
React NativeSolanaSolana Seeker, 2025
45 merged PRs
IntentKit
Top outside contributor to a 6.5K-star AI agent framework on Base. 45+ agent tools written in Python with LangChain.
PythonLangChainOpen source, 2025
14 stars
Solscan for React Native
Explore any Solana wallet from a phone: SOL balance, token holdings and recent transactions for any address.
React NativeSolanaOpen source
Perps, cloned
Phantom perps interface
The Phantom wallet perpetuals trading screen rebuilt in React Native, order ticket and position states included.
React NativeDeFiOpen source
RAG, end to end
rag-supabase-ts
Retrieval-augmented generation on Supabase vector storage: chunking, embeddings, similarity search and a grounded answer that cites its sources.
TypeScriptEmbeddingsOpen source
A lending protocol
solana-lending-protocol
Deposit collateral, borrow against it, get liquidated when the ratio breaks. Written in Rust, on Solana.
RustAnchorOpen source
A stablecoin
stable-coin-foundry
Algorithmic, exogenously collateralised stablecoin backed by wETH and wBTC, with Chainlink oracles and liquidations. Built in Foundry.
SolidityFoundryOpen source
Fuzz and invariants
invariant-testing-foundry
A working guide to the testing most Solidity repos skip: stateful fuzzing and invariant tests that actually break things.
SolidityTestingOpen source
5 stars
AI component builder
Describe a React component in a prompt and get working code back, rendered live in the browser.
TypeScriptAIOpen source
Anchor and Pinocchio
solana-programs
Vaults, escrow, an AMM, flash loans, staking and CPI examples. The same programs written twice, once in Anchor and once in no_std Pinocchio.
Rustno_stdOpen source
Top outside contributor
45 pull requests merged into a 6,500-star AI agent framework.
The single largest outside contributor to IntentKit, an AI agent framework running on Base. 45+ agent tools written in Python with LangChain, from DeFi and NFT actions to autonomous task generation.
45
Pull requests merged
6.5K+
Stars on the repo
45+
Agent tools shipped
#1
Outside contributor
Went viral on the Solana Seeker
NearMe
Google Maps for Solana. Built and shipped to the Seeker dApp Store in two days, then it went viral: 20K+ downloads, 10K+ merchants accepting SOL scraped worldwide, and 4.2 stars from 1.1K+ reviews left by real Seeker owners.
2 days
Idea to store
20K+
Downloads
1.1K+
Reviews
10K+
Merchants mapped
A wiki about your life that writes itself
Talkamore
A remote MCP server with OAuth that any AI connects to, plus the React Native app around it. You tell Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to save something and it gets written, filed and dated. Built the server, the app and the release pipeline.
talkamore.com
A launchpad that moved real money
DxSale
The frontend for a DeFi launchpad that powered 500+ token launches and $10M+ in volume, generating $100K+ in fees. Wallet flows in Ethers.js and 3x organic traffic from SEO.
dxsale.networkTwo more React Native apps
Coupl and SuiSage
A shared-spending app on the Play Store, and an AI portfolio assistant that chains models together to read a Sui wallet and explain what is in it.
All mobile workSeven years, six teams.
Apr 2026 - Present
4 mos
Spout Finance
Infrastructure Lead
- Own the cloud: Terraform, AWS, Fargate, RDS and Kubernetes
- CI/CD, environments and release pipelines for the whole engineering team
- Tokenised real-world assets, so the infrastructure carries real money
Sep 2025 - Mar 2026
7 mos
SendAI
Senior Software Engineer
- Consumer mobile apps at the intersection of Solana and AI
- Mobile-first apps built directly on the Solana blockchain
- Seven years of mobile work applied to products that scale to 10M+ users
Mar 2024 - Aug 2025
1 yr 6 mos
DxSale Network
Senior Frontend Engineer
- Built the core frontend for a DeFi launchpad in Next.js and TailwindCSS
- 500+ token sales launched, $100K+ in fees from $10M+ of volume
- Grew organic traffic 3x through SEO
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
1 yr 2 mos
Krane Apps
Co-founder
- Led a team of 10 across Nest.js and Next.js
- Shipped blockchain products and DeFi apps including Glitter Finance
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
1 yr
Jar App
Frontend Team Lead
- Led the frontend team of 8, mentoring and running peer reviews
- Improved app performance by 60% at 10M+ users
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
2 yrs 2 mos
Fleek
Frontend Engineer
- Built a PWA in React.js and the flagship app in React Native
- Cut bundle size by 45% through code splitting
What I build with.
Everything here is something I have shipped with, not read about. Terraform and AWS underneath, React Native and Next.js on top, Rust and Solidity where the money moves.
Infrastructure
What I own at Spout
TerraformAWSFargateRDSKubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsGitCloudflareRedis
Mobile
Seven years, apps at 10M+ users
React NativeExpoiOSAndroidSwiftKotlin
Frontend
DeFi interfaces at $10M+ volume
Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwindCSSReduxEthers.jsVercel
Backend
APIs, jobs and data behind the apps
Node.jsNest.jsExpressPostgreSQLGraphQLFirebaseSupabasePythonGoLangChain
Smart contracts
Rust and Anchor on Solana, Solidity on EVM
RustSolanaAnchorPinocchioSolidityFoundry
Build with me
Start a chat with IshanIshan Lakhwanibluntbrain.com