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Dhruva Chakravarthi
Founder in Bangalore, He/Him/Macha
> Buidling with NFTs since 2021. Cryptonative since 2017. Degen from birth.
> Looking for cool people to build cool things with.
> Currently on a side quest to become a professional grappler, because I was bored and needed a hobby when the markets were down.
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Work Experience
2021 — 2023
Remote
An NFT utilities products and services startup:
- Worked as the strategy and development team for all Polygon NFT projects with brand partners
- Delivered 25+ NFT projects successfully for the Polygon BD team and partners, netting $1M+ in revenue for the org
- Successfully sold the org to LayerE (a Polygon incubated company), and exited to build for the larger Web3 community
2017 — 2021
USA, Global
Provided technology solutions for global businesses and enterprises:
- Architected and delivered integration architecture for a Fortune 500 Utility company's enterprise system, optimizing service time by 30%
- Distilled inventory of 50+ enterprise tools down to 10 core tools for NA Manufacturing client, cutting tech costs by 50%
- Engineered the unified global Salesforce integrations architecture (PwC One) for 157 PwC offices and sales teams
- Managed the tech transition for a $1T+ M&A deal of two leading Global Engineering Services companies, running a team of 12 managers and engineers across 4 continents
- Delivered an enterprise contracting application with a team of 5 engineers for a Fortune 500 F&B company, saving over 10% of workforce hours and $10M+ of savings per year
Projects
2022
- Conceptualised a free-mint NFT project as a marketing tool to onboard new users to Coinbase Wallet
- Engineered the project with the Coinbase Wallet team, and the NFT artist
- Broke a world record for most NFT mints - 1.2 Million NFT minted under one single collection, and onboarded 500k+ unique users to Coinbase Wallet
2022
- Architected one of the earliest known versions of NFT Quests for Polygon Studios @ NFT NYC 2022
- Created an NFT Scavenger Hunt where users had to visit multiple Polygon Partner experiences at the conference across town
- Winners could redeem exclusive Polygon Studios goodies and rewards using the NFTs and points redeemed
2022
- Integrated 2 brand identities into an NFT collection for the combined audience
- Worked with Zack Lieberman to create generative art piece
- Launched via a community whitelist, ensuring it was a community-first project, generating over 420 ETH trading volumes
- Automated royalty splits to the community, artist, and creators in fair, equitable, and mutually agreed method
2022
Custom NFT Solutions at Web3 Clients
Engineered and delivered bespoke product suites, as requested by clients:
- Team Liquid: NFT Management Toolkit to administer all mints for their eSports community over the next few years
- Flipkart Firedrops: Smart Contract engineering for parts of the Flipkart metaverse and NFT project
- House of Kibaa Genzeroes: Smart Contract engineering for the NFT collection contracts of the pfp project
- Mempoverse: Smart Contract engineering for the NFT Collection and Marketplace behind the NFT collection and metaverse
- Bangalore International Airport T2 Metaport: NFT Quest solution for airport inauguration activities
Side Projects
2023
Angel Investing at Web3 Startups
Helping frens buidl:
- Superkit: NFT Utilities product suite (superkit.io)
- A-Live: Metaverse for music (alive.house)
- Anq Finance: Fintech provider of crypto cards, loans, cashbacks (anq.finance)
2022
Death by a million POAPs at Multiple Brands
Built and launched POAP projects for multiple brands/events:
- Polygon @ ETH Denver
- Mercedes Benz event
- NH7 Weekender festival
- NFT Pune
- Polygon Studios @ NFT NYC
- The Product House Community POAPs
- WOW Awards
- Web3 Conf India
- Spoken Fest 2022
- Socials Web3 Hub
Education
2016 — 2017
MS in Computer Science at Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Graduated early because it was too cold in Syracuse