Rajat Kumar
Software engineer and technical builder with 8+ years building developer platforms, AI systems, APIs, SDKs, and financial infrastructure. Experienced in agentic workflows, evaluation-driven development, distributed systems, and production-grade backend platforms using Go, Python, TypeScript, AWS, and LLM frameworks.
Built and shipped products from 0 to 1 across AI agents, developer tooling, transactions systems, and blockchain infrastructure.
Experience
Lead Engineer
ZONIQX
San Francisco, California
Led architecture and implementation of a multi-tenant agentic AI platform using AWS Lambda, Bedrock, OpenSearch vector search, DynamoDB, LangChain, and event-driven workflows supporting onboarding, document intelligence, retrieval, recommendations, and human-in-the-loop review.
Builtsupervisor-agentarchitectureswithrouting,fallbackhandling,traceability,evaluationloopsandhuman-in-the-loopreviewpipelinesforproductionAIworkflows.
Shipped production RAG pipelines, retrieval systems, document intelligence workflows and evaluation frameworks supporting enterprise onboarding and compliance operations.
Co-authored ERC-7518, a dynamic compliant token standard using partitioned state, modular controls, and reusable contract components.
Founding Engineer (Director)
REALTOINDIA(ZONIQX)
Bangalore, India
Owned 0 to 1 architecture for tokenization, marketplace, issuance, trading, lending, custody-adjacent and compliance systems.
Architected backend services in Rust, Go, Node.js, TypeScript and adjacent system components for asset lifecycle and transaction processing.
Designed reusable APIs and SDKs for wallet integration, transfer validation, asset onboarding, compliance checks and multi-chain operations.
Built indexing systems for EVM networks, enabling real-time visibility into wallet activity, token events and transaction state changes.
Senior Blockchain Developer
COGNIERINSIGHTSPVT. LTD
Hyderabad, India
Delivered production smart contracts, wallet integrations, and backend services for fintech, healthcare, real estate, and supply-chain platforms.
Built real estate subscription and booking workflows with wallet-based transactions, improving execution and investor experience.
Researched and implemented blockchain POCs across Hyperledger Fabric, Sawtooth, Ethereum, healthcare records, and secure file sharing.
Education
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Master’s (Thesis)
Graduate Assistant in Teaching
Investigated EVM security vulnerabilities in the context of quantum computing threats and analyzed potential transitionsto quantum-resistant cryptographic systems.
Contributed to group projects focused on smart contract development and security review for multisig wallets and atomic swaps.
Developed a model for vehicle re-identification using complementary features from unstructured data.
Coursework: Cryptography, Computer Networks, Advanced Algorithms, Design Systems
KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Technology (Honors)
Secured first place in a security hackathon organized by Lucideus for building a certificate verification system on Bitcoin.
Collaborated with faculty members to mentor students in programming, crypto, deep learning, web3, and distributed systems.
Coursework: Computer Architecture, Neural Networks, Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Languages, Mathematics
Skills
CONFERENCES&COMMUNITYENGAGEMENT
ETHDenver 2025 – Hackathon Judge
Reviewed blockchain, identity, privacy, security, and zero-knowledge projects for technical depth, architecture quality, and execution risk.
FLORIDASTATEUNIVERSITY
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Researched Ethereum scalability, zkSync, rollups, micro-rollups, client-side privacy, and EVM security tradeoffs.
Supported coursework and reviews across software engineering, secure systems, algorithms, and backend-oriented project design.
PROJECTS
AI Recruiting Agent
Agentic workflow system for sourcing opportunities, tailoring applications, evaluating job fit, generating outreach, and managing interview pipelines using LLM orchestration and structured workflows.
Rust Systems Modules
Reusable Rust-oriented systems components for service design, typed interfaces, error handling, integration boundaries, and backend runtime workflows.
Indexer
High-performance distributed indexing and analytics platform processing blockchain events, wallet activity, token movements and transaction state transitions at scale.
ZConnect SDK
Unified SDK for ERC-7518, ERC-1400, and ERC-3643 with token detection, role mapping, compliance checks, and identity-aware transfers.
Zoniqx AI Platform
Agentic AI platform for onboarding, document ingestion, retrieval, supervisor routing, recommendation flows, and tenant-aware guidance.
DyCIST Protocol (ERC-7518)
Ethereum standard for dynamic compliant security tokens, semi-fungible partitioning, transfer controls, and regulated assets.
Stablecoin Infrastructure
ERC-20 stablecoin contracts with minting, burning, EIP-2612 permits, compliance gating, and multi-chain deployment support.
ATS Dex
DEX and lending protocol for security token swaps, lending flows, and DeFi transaction execution.
Outpace
Connector and orchestration platform for no-code workflows, API automation, and backend process execution.