About

Gajesh Naik is a 14-year-old software engineer with an impressive 7 years of coding experience. He is proficient in web development, blockchain development (Solana & EVM), and enjoys solving problems, often working for 12 hours a day. Gajesh completed Google Foobar within 6 hours at the age of 12 and has previously built two DeFi projects, one of which reached $7m of TVL at peak and the other raised $1m. He has worked at Solana Labs and is currently a software engineer at ftx Ventures, where he contributes to open source projects and works with portfolio companies like Coral on shipping high-quality tools/products to boost DAU. Gajesh's past experience includes working as a software engineer and contributor at Coral, where he built xNFTs to bring fun experiences to Backpack, developed Double Diffusion - a platform to pay $0.001 and query stable diffusion images, Flappy Bird - a nostalgia game, 2048 - a brain teaser, Network Monitor - a platform to monitor Solana, Protocols, NFTs, and Yields, and GGSwap - a peer-to-peer trading NFTs platform. He also worked as a software engineer at Solana Labs, where he wrote multiple Solana programs and open-sourced them for the public to use or learn from them. He also published the `Solana Development` Series to onboard developers to Solana. Gajesh's education history includes a High School degree from People's, a Certificate course in C & C++ from Broadway IT, a Certificate Course in Core Java from NIIT, and a CHNA in Networking and Hardware from IANT. Gajesh's tech stack includes software engineering, Solana, NFT, blockchain, DeFi, and web development. He has relevant experience of 0.53 years. Gajesh loves building and contributing to open source projects and is always looking for opportunities to learn and grow in the field of software engineering.