Chennai, India · Open to Leadership Roles · Remote & Relocation

Dhivakar Rajaram

Blockchain  ·  Engineering Leadership  ·  Systems & AI

From research to reality.

4+ Years experience
IIT PG AI & ML
0→1 Product builder
Led Cross-functional teams
"Engineer.
Leader.
Builder."
Chennai, India

I am a Blockchain Engineer and Engineering Leader with 4+ years building in startup environments — taking products from raw research all the way to production while owning architecture, team, and delivery simultaneously.

My core expertise is in blockchain protocol engineering: privacy systems, EVM and LWS-based chains, smart contracts, and applied cryptography. But the work has always been more than code — I've led cross-functional teams, driven product strategy, and made the architectural calls that determine whether something ships or stalls.

I hold a PG Diploma in AI & ML from IIT Guwahati. Alongside my main engineering role, I run Dhiva-Labs — an independent lab for software, hardware, embedded systems, and anything else worth building. I'm actively seeking leadership roles: Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, CTO or founding-engineer positions where I can own more than a backlog.

Blockchain Architecture Privacy Systems Bulletproofs++ EVM / LWS / Monero Smart Contracts Solidity C++ Python JavaScript WASM AI/ML Integration AWS CI/CD Team Leadership Embedded Systems Zero-to-One Delivery
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Technical Leadership

I've owned architecture end-to-end across multiple production blockchain systems — not just contributing, but setting direction, making hard calls, and being accountable for outcomes.

02

Team Building

Hired, mentored, and grown engineering teams at startups. I know how to create rhythm, unblock people, and keep quality high without burning the team out.

03

Research to Production

I've taken cryptographic research papers — Bulletproofs++, account abstraction, privacy protocols — and turned them into shipped, production-grade systems. Not many engineers do both.

04

Startup DNA

Four years of zero-to-one product building means I thrive in ambiguity, move fast without losing rigour, and understand that the best engineers are also product thinkers.

The work

Apr 2026 — Present India
Founder

Dhiva-Labs

Founder & Principal Engineer

  • Founded an independent engineering lab spanning software, hardware, embedded systems, AI, and creative tech projects.
  • Setting the lab's technical direction — from firmware-level embedded work to high-level product architecture.
  • Building a portfolio of original products and open-source contributions driven by curiosity and real-world usefulness.
Dec 2025 — Present British Virgin Islands · Remote
Current Role

Zodiako Ltd

Blockchain Developer

  • Core blockchain engineer on an international-scale product — owning protocol and smart contract work end to end.
  • Working across the full delivery cycle: architecture decisions, implementation, review, and deployment in a distributed team.
  • Applying deep experience from previous blockchain builds to ship with speed and confidence.
Jan 2023 — Nov 2025 Dubai · Remote
Tech Lead

Vee4 Software

Blockchain Developer & Tech Lead

  • Led the full product engineering lifecycle across EVM, LWS, and privacy-based blockchain systems — from initial research through to production deployment.
  • Owned architecture decisions, team leadership, sprint planning, and cross-functional coordination with product, design, and mobile teams.
  • Implemented Bulletproofs++ for zero-knowledge range proofs and ERC-4337 Account Abstraction — both research-heavy projects shipped to production.
  • Built and managed AWS infrastructure, Nginx, and CI/CD pipelines; mentored junior engineers on protocol design and best practices.
Feb 2022 — Dec 2022 Chennai, India
R&D

Blockhash Technologies

R&D Blockchain Engineer

  • Translated cryptography and blockchain research papers into a production privacy-first messaging application — designed and built from scratch.
  • Defined and enforced end-to-end security architecture at the protocol layer.
  • Led a small engineering team, establishing research processes and delivery rhythm in an early-stage startup.

Dhiva-Labs

"Let's Build Something Remarkable."

Dhiva-Labs is my independent engineering lab — not tied to any employer, not limited to any domain. The lab exists to explore, build, and ship things that are actually interesting: from offline software to hardware prototypes to embedded systems and creative tech experiments.

The philosophy is simple: even a side-project should be engineered with production-grade precision. And the focus is always on fixing something real.

Software Products Offline-first apps, developer tools, creative utilities
Hardware & Embedded Firmware, microcontrollers, IoT, physical computing projects
Blockchain & Cryptography Protocol research, privacy tooling, on-chain experiments
AI & Systems Applied ML, automation, intelligent tooling
Fun & Creative Tech Anything that sparks curiosity — games, art, weird ideas that work
Languages
C++ Python TypeScript C (Embedded)
Frontend
React Node.js FastAPI
Infra
Docker AWS PostgreSQL
Hardware
Microcontrollers Embedded Linux Firmware

Lab is active

Projects in progress. New ideas always on the workbench.

From the lab

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◐ In Progress

Hardware Project —

Something at the firmware and physical layer. The lab is going hands-on with embedded systems — real hardware, real constraints, built from first principles.

Embedded C / C++ Hardware
Details soon ···
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◐ Concept

More ideas on the workbench —

The lab runs on curiosity. Creative tech, developer tooling, AI experiments — new things are always taking shape. Follow the GitHub to catch them first.

Open Lab Various
Watch on GitHub →
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◐ Concept

Collaborate with the lab —

Dhiva-Labs is built to be open. If you have a problem worth solving or an idea worth building — reach out. Founders, engineers, and curious people welcome.

Open Collaboration
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Built at work

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Vee4 · 2023–25

Privacy Chain Protocol

Research-to-production implementation of Bulletproofs++ for zero-knowledge range proofs on a custom blockchain — reducing proof size and verification cost.

Bulletproofs++ ZK Proofs C++ Cryptography
View details →
W–02
Vee4 · 2023–25

ERC-4337 Wallet Infrastructure

Account abstraction architecture enabling smart wallets with gasless transactions, social recovery, and seamless dApp UX — shipped to production.

Solidity ERC-4337 EVM Account Abstraction
View details →
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Blockhash · 2022

Blockchain Chat App

A privacy-first decentralised messaging application built from scratch — end-to-end encrypted at the protocol layer, no central relay, custom backend.

C++ Custom Protocol E2E Encryption P2P
View details →
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Vee4 · 2023–25

AI/ML Integration System

Designed and deployed an AI/ML pipeline integrated with blockchain infrastructure — bringing intelligent automation into on-chain decision flows.

Python AI/ML AWS Smart Contracts
View details →

Let's build something.

Whether you're hiring for a leadership role, building a product that needs a technical co-founder, collaborating with the lab, or just want to talk tech — reach out.

Tech Lead & Engineering Manager roles CTO / VP Engineering Founding Engineer positions Blockchain / Web3 teams Lab collaborations via Dhiva-Labs
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Location Chennai, India · Remote & Relocation open
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