Takshak Mudgal

Experience

1. BabyLoveGrowth.ai, Software Engineer, full-time

   Feb 2026 to now, Remote

   • Merged 499 pull requests in 231 days across the Next.js dashboard, the Express and Postgres backend and two new products.
   • Built a remote MCP server that connects Claude to Search Console and Google Analytics: a hand-written OAuth 2.1 server with PKCE and rotating refresh tokens, and 14 of its 15 tools.
   • Found and fixed two silent failures in the weekly report email: a run lock that never released and a queue that starved itself.
   • Built a Quora visibility engine and cut its discovery to one search call per keyword; moved keyword data to the official Google Ads API.
   • Shipped self-serve white-label onboarding for agencies and an npm package for Next.js blogs with 14,725 downloads.

2. stories.fun, Smart contract and full-stack engineer, contract

   Feb to Apr 2025, Apr to Sep 2026, Remote

   • Wrote Zyora's contracts on Circle's Arc chain in Foundry (launchpad, AMM, swap router, liquidity locker) with 304 tests, including 29 fuzz tests and 15 invariants; 47 tokens launched.
   • Built Zyora's chain indexer and launchpad API on Cloudflare Workers and fixed the socket reuse that broke every other request.
   • Integrated a one-transaction launch on Robinhood Chain, simulated before signing and re-verified on the server from the receipt.
   • Built a Solana launcher on Meteora's bonding curve, and in 2025 the Anchor presale program.

3. Gremlin Cartel, Smart contract and full-stack engineer, contract

   Aug to Oct 2026, Remote

   • Wrote an NFT staking contract on Robinhood Chain with accumulator-based rewards and five lock tiers up to 10x; 665 NFTs staked by 174 wallets.
   • Built the app around it with 135 unit tests and 57 end-to-end cases, and fixed a batching bug that failed 4,984 of 5,000 reads silently.

4. VORYN, Web engineer, contract

   Jul to Sep 2026, Remote

   • Built the site for a green bond financing firm from Figma, with project and investor inquiry flows saved to Postgres.

5. duo-liquidity-damm, Solana program developer, freelance

   Oct to Dec 2025, Remote

   • Wrote an Anchor lending pool that opens shorts by selling borrowed tokens through Meteora's DAMM v2 by CPI, with per-pool liquidation.

6. Freelance, MultiLang, tokenwars, GoCabs, bitpill

   Aug 2024 to Jul 2025, Remote

   • MultiLang: the first AWS Translate integration and the DNS verification flow; 41 merged pull requests.
   • tokenwars: the live trade feed and socket provider; 34 merged pull requests. GoCabs: React Native maps, ride sockets and Solana Pay checkout.

7. Internships, Mercle, Raasta R&D, MetaTicket

   Jul 2023 to Nov 2024, Remote and Haldwani

   • Mercle: wrote the Uniswap V2, V3, UniswapX and LI.FI parsers for the-parsoor, the engine behind OpenRep.
   • Raasta R&D: built a Next.js learning site with Mux. MetaTicket, now Mintix: frontend for Solana NFT ticketing.

Projects and recognition

• Five Rust terminal tools in my Homebrew tap: 31,085 lines of Rust and 337 tests (siphon, groom, ejector, snag, wa-tui).
• First place out of 36 submissions in 100xDevs' payment gateway bounty on Superteam Earn, 2025.
• First pull request merged from outside the founding team at rowboat (YC S24), 2025.