Hi, I'm Avichal.
I am curious about
- trust and verifiability on the internet and decentralized protocols
- open-weight LLMs and local-first software
These days
- tinkering with AI agents that can transact onchain
- producing videos about applications of zero-knowledge proofs
A few things I've worked on
I worked on Recall Network's object storage blockchain, a layer 2 for Filecoin. Before that, I worked on Tableland, an offchain SQL-like database driven by onchain EVM events.
I was the fifth engineer in the Blinkit (previously Grofers, acquired by Zomato) core team. I helped launch its hyperlocal delivery marketplace. Blinkit is now India's biggest quick-commerce platform.
I was the third engineer in the Lawyaw (acquired by Clio) core team. I helped architect and build its automated legal document editor.
I was a platform engineer at Zalando, an online fashion and lifestyle platform. I worked on site reliability and infrastructure.
In college, I studied computer science. My research project focused on finding bottlenecks in the BGP protocol.