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.