Gurkaran Sahni

About

Blockchain and Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building protocol infrastructure, wallets, indexers and cross chain executions. Built systems across EVM, RWA, DeFi, AI agents and compliant asset workflows.

Key Achievements

▸ Secured $4.6M onchain funds through whitehat with SEAL 911 team
▸ Led development of products for ICO and IDO launches, raising over $1M
▸ Audited and secured smart contracts with total TVL exceeding $10M
▸ Selected for CDL Montreal at nomo. Got $10K grant from Polkadot
▸ Presented at Singapore Fintech Festival (2024) for rootVX and Finternet
▸ Collaborated with cybercrime police in tracing $15K stolen funds

Work Experience

nomo

2025 - 2026

CTO, Founder

Built and launched a social-first AI agent enabling on-chain transactions via social platforms (X, YouTube, Telegram), acquiring 100+ early users and validating initial demand

rootVX

2024 - 2025

Senior Blockchain Engineer

Built blockchain and smart contract infrastructure for finternet and RWA protocols

Freelancer

2023 - 2024

Consultant

Led multiple product launches with teams across the globe. Raised over $700K. Audited and secured smart contracts with TVL over $5M

Bitbns

2020 - 2023

Senior Software Engineer

Led the blockchain development team. Created industry-first blockchain-based fantasy gaming startup. Developed decentralized digital asset management platform. Worked on various projects, from arbitrage and snipe bots to DeFi and NFTs.

Buyhatke

2019 - 2020

Intern

Created and developed the autocoupon component for the buyhatke chrome extension. Developed backend for extension’s wallet. Refactored backend apis for buyhatke app

GAP Inc.

2019 - 2019

Intern

Created a hydration tool for the Business Intelligence Team. The tool takes real time data as input from Kafka. This data is sent to Spark for furtehr processing. Worked on various frameworks like Spark, Spring and Kafka