Shishir Pai

Shishir Pai

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i'm a systems and backend engineer from boston. i dabble in smart contracts, high throughput distributed backends, miners, and agentic engineering. most of it has real money on the line with a Cardano staking protocol that peaked at $1.8m tvl, a mining network that did 331m requests in 11 days across 14,000+ machines, an oracle that went from a few hundred data points to 100 billion.

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building a harness workflow from first principles
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building a harness workflow from first principles

how i actually run a multi-agent coding harness.

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zengate global

founding engineer

zengate global
May 2023 - Present

founding engineer on palmyra, a tokenized commodity trading platform. built the oracle, the Cardano staking and emissions contracts, and the Go off-chain executors and indexers that run them.

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co-founder

phoenix finance
Jul 2023 - Present

hodlcoin protocol on ergo and alephium. rewrote the contract after a $90k whitehat drain. $375k peak tvl.

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system architect

capsule
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023

first role, straight out of high school. mint an nft from a photo, no crypto knowledge needed. mostly architecture and gas optimization, cut on-chain costs 10x.

umass amherst

b.s. computer science, math minor

umass amherst
Sep 2022 - Dec 2025

built production systems while a full-time undergrad. gpa 3.83.