Hi, I'm Arsalaan. I have an interest in systems & software. I enjoy building products and developer tools. I have worked across blockchains, AI/ML, distributed systems & dev infra. Recently worked at @raven, where we're building the scientific computing ecosystem for OCaml.

Prev Software @ Barclays, Arttoo

Projects & Hackathons

• Educhain Semester 1 (Sep 2024) — 9th Place — Eduscan: custom blockchain explorer for Educhain (top 9 of 7000).

• Fraxtal Hackathon (Aug 2024) — 5th Place — Fraxlytics: global state dashboard for the Frax protocol and its assets.

• Akashathon 2 (May 2024) — 3rd Place — Sangrah: deployments datahub on the Akash Network.

• Privacy4Web3 Hackathon (Oct 2023) — Winner (Tutorials & Standards Track) — DSearch: private, decentralized search engine on Oasis Privacy Layer & Sapphire.

• FVM Dataverse Hack (Jun 2023) — Winner (Spheron Track) — DMedico: decentralized platform for encrypted medical file transfers on Filecoin Virtual Machine.

• Bitcoin Olympics Hackathon (Apr 2023) — 2nd Place — OrdSimilarity: search engine for Bitcoin Ordinals with similarity scoring.

• Cudos Hackanauts 2022 (Dec 2022) — 2nd Place — Debook: NFT-based ticketing on Cudos Blockchain; later incubated by Cudos.

• Health Hacks 2022 (May 2022) — 3rd Place — Healthdemic: AI web app for fitness tracking, diet recommendations, and mental health support.

• Fit & Femme (Mar 2022) — Best Women-Centric Hack — Fit & Femme: real-time fitness tracker for reps, time, and calories burned.

• IoTeX Hackathon India (Jan 2022) — 2nd Place — Neurodema: IoT + blockchain solution for securely tracking Alzheimer’s patients.

• Hack APAC 2021 (Dec 2021) — 2nd Place — Xed: COVID travel management platform for flights, hotels, and guidelines.

• NASA Space Apps Challenge (Oct 2021) — Honorable Mention & Finalist — Ommatdium: ML app that classifies bugs as harmful/unharmful for crops (top 45 teams of 28000+).

• Hyper Hacks (Oct 2021) — 1st Place — Aquastreet: device + mobile app using ML to detect aquatic species via vocal recognition.

• Opportunity Hacks (Oct 2021) — 3rd Place — CAD-TOD: donation platform for non-profits; led to a paid internship at PayPal.

• HopHacks (Sept 2021) — Best Financial Hack — FinForge: ML-powered fraud prevention tool.

• PennApps (Sept 2021) — 4th Place — SpotZoo: crowdsourced animal tracking app using ML.

• Massey Hacks (Aug 2021) — 1st Place — Avastha: AI-powered exercise competition app.

• Teen Hacks LI (July 2021) — 2nd Place — VisMe: news, petitions, and debate platform with a fake news detector.

• Los Altos Hacks V (June 2021) — 2nd Place — Fauna: crowdsourced animal attack prevention (early SpotZoo).

• Alpha Hacks (Apr 2021) — AR Track Winner — Design Space: AR furniture visualization tool.

• Merge Hackathon (Mar 2021) — 1st Place — Light House: NLP tool that summarizes T&Cs and flags suspicious statements.