Rahul Shah
Full-stack and blockchain engineer from Nepal with 4+ years shipping DeFi, DEX, on-chain indexing and Web3 game products across Story, Sui, Aleo and EVM chains. Most recently I built Elitra, an onchain asset-management and personal finance platform.
Work
- Jul 2025 - Present
Elitra
Onchain asset management, from NAV tracking of third-party vaults to personal finance. Modular execution units for DCA, swaps, buys and sells across stocks, crypto and commodities, with AI-recommended portfolio actions.
- Aug 2024 - Jul 2025
Storyhunt
A permissionless DEX on Story Chain, backed by Story Foundation. Owned the contracts, backend and indexing, including a smart order router, Uniswap v3-style concentrated liquidity and The Graph subgraphs.
- Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Infinite Seas
A 2D strategy Web3 game with on-chain assets, built with Phaser and MUD. Sea navigation and real-world map gameplay.
- Aug 2022 - Jul 2025
Venture23
Full-stack and blockchain engineer
Frontend, backend and smart contracts across Sui, Aleo, Icon and EVM for Anichess, Gangstaverse and Vendetta. Aleo bridging (Verulink) and lending (Verulend), and real-time game systems with Three.js and WebSockets.
- Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
LIS Nepal
Data engineering intern
Data engineering and visualization with Snowflake, Power BI and Tableau. Assisted on NLP, database management, ETL and business intelligence projects.
- Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
iBriz.ai
Frontend intern
Frontend for the ICE Crowd Loan and Airdrop, using the Polkadot SDK for interoperability across the ICE and SNOW blockchain ecosystem.
- Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Freelance
Smart contract developer
Developed and deployed game logic and marketplace smart contracts for a blockchain game, and built automated trading bots for arbitrage and liquidity provision on Uniswap, Raydium and Kamino Finance.
Projects
Elitra
Onchain asset management and personal finance: NAV tracking of vaults, modular execution for DCA, swaps, buys and sells, and AI-recommended portfolio actions.
Storyhunt
Permissionless DEX on Story Chain with a smart order router, Uniswap v3-style concentrated liquidity and The Graph subgraphs.
Aleo
Verulink, a bridge moving assets between Ethereum and Aleo; Verulend, a lending protocol; and an open-source Aleo indexer CLI and framework.
Koseli
Community platform on Sui with a referral and quest system for 10K+ daily users, and gift cards demoed at the Paris Sui conference.
Web3 games
Game mechanics, on-chain assets and real-time systems with Phaser, MUD, Three.js and WebSockets, for my own games and client games at Venture23.
Infinite SeasWonder GameAnichessGangstaverseVendetta
Shruti
Nepali audiobook app with Tacotron2 and HiFi-GAN text-to-speech. My major project, presented at SIGUL 2023.
Academic projects
D-Shelf
Minor project: decentralized book publishing on blockchain and IPFS, using NFTs against royalty theft. I worked on the smart contracts, UI design, frontend and integration. Hardhat, React, IPFS, ethers.js, AES/SHA.
Log Tracker
MERN web app for tracking progress on bachelor's projects and master's theses. I built it full-stack with Express, Bootstrap, MongoDB and Passport.js authentication.
Chat Over LAN
Terminal chat app for messaging inside an organization's network, built with sockets in C++.
Airbus A380 Modeling
Computer graphics project rendering a Blender airplane model with OpenGL in Python.
Covid-19 Tracker
DSA project: a GUI showing Covid-19 data by country and category, built with SFML, merge sort on linked lists and binary search.
Real-time sales prediction
End-to-end data pipeline predicting purchase totals from live sales data, with Apache Kafka on AWS.
Non-profit
Hope4Smile
Volunteer-led UK charity supporting education, healthcare, clean water, food relief, safeguarding and opportunity in more than 25 countries.
Education
- 2018 - 2022
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering
IOE Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur
- Winner, LOCUS 2021 Hack-A-Week
- Vice President, ESAJ Pulchowk
- Pre-event organizer, LOCUS 2020
- Golden Jubilee Scholarship 2018/19
- 2016 - 2018
+2 Science, Higher Secondary Education
Shikshadeep College, Biratnagar
- Recognized for outstanding performance in both class 11 and 12
- Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship 2016/17, awarded by the Indian Embassy
Recognition
Papers
Nepali Text-to-Speech Synthesis using Tacotron2 for Melspectrogram Generation
Read the paperDecentralized Book Publishing Platform using Blockchain and IPFS: An NFT-based Solution to Royalty Theft
Read the paper
Awards and fellowships
- 2022
E-Satya Blockchain Fellowship
Fellow - 2021, 2022
IWEEE
Participant, 7th and 8th editions - 2021
LOCUS Hack-A-Week
Winner - 2018
AI Fellowship Programme
Fellow
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Notes
Smart wallets
Your keys, our schedule
Why I think smart wallets are underrated, and how Elitra runs your recurring buys without ever holding your money.
Indexing
What a small Aleo indexer taught me about indexers
Starting from what the explorer shows you, parsing Aleo values with a couple of regexes, and the rules I'd keep for any generic indexer.
Shipping
Rehearse the launch you can't move
Launching a DEX on the day Story's mainnet went live, and why we ran the launch several times before doing it for real.