Ishaan Kesarwani

Building AI agents, infrastructure, and cryptographic systems. Studying at IIT Roorkee.

Open to internships & collaborations

About

I work on AI agents, zero-knowledge proofs, and blockchain systems. I'm a developer at BlocSoc IITR and actively contribute to open source projects like IntelOwl, Deimos, ICU4X and Kyverno.

Education

IIT Roorkee2024 — 2028
Undergraduate

Experience

Paddox TechnologiesJune 2026 — Present
Founding Engineer
- Developing a platform that lets companies hire, train, and manage multiple AI employees.
- Building core agent infrastructure for persistent identity and memory, adding multiple app integrations and autonomous work across company tools.
CloutlyMay 2026 — July 2026
Founding Engineer
A personal AI Second Brain for content creation, an intelligent clone that knows your entire content universe, learns from the best creators in your niche, dynamically prepares your media kit and connects to the best upcoming brand campaigns.
IIM Ahmedabad VenturesMay 2026 — June 2026
Summer Resident Apprenticeship
Built and deployed AI MVPs during a startup residency at IIM Ahmedabad, with sprints in product architecture and market validation.
WeLaunch.AIFebruary 2026 — March 2026
AI Engineer, Intern
Automated the sales team's workflow on Slack by designing and deploying a multi-agent system.
BlocSoc IITR2024 — Present
Developer
Web3 and agentic developer, contributing to multiple projects and have won multiple international hackathons.

Selected projects

Work across AI workflows, cryptography, and decentralized finance.

Orbital

2025

Multi-dimensional concentrated liquidity AMM for stablecoins in a single LP — Stylus (Rust) on Arbitrum, based on Paradigm's Orbital.

Rust (Stylus)
DeFi
AMM

Source

Grothy-crab

2025

Groth16 zkSNARK in Rust from scratch: R1CS, QAP, trusted setup, proof generation, and verification — based on Groth16 (ePrint 2016/260).

Rust
ZK-SNARKs
Groth16

Paper Source

Nymph

2024

Cross-platform privacy app with ZK in Noir on Flutter via MoPro; started at ETHGlobal Delhi with BlocSoc IITR.

Noir
Flutter
MoPro

Source

Deimos

2024

Open-source mobile benchmarking for ZK frameworks: Groth16, Risc0, Cairo, Plonk, and more — BlocSoc IITR.

Rust
Flutter
ZK

Source

DragNDrop

2024

n8n-style AI workflow engine for composing agents — React.

React
AI agents

Source

WebBuilder

2024

AI tool that scaffolds a full site from a prompt, pushes to GitHub, and supports iterative edits.

Full-stack
AI

Source

Skills

Rust
AI infra and agents
Agentic memory
Inference
Language modelling
Solidity/EVM fundamentals
Solana VM
ZK (SNARKs, STARKs, VMs)
DeFi
System design
DevOps
Python
Golang
C++

Achievements

One of 100 students across all IITs, NITs and IIMs selected for the .
, and 2nd place at Arbitrum Open House (implemented Orbital).
Turbin3 Solana Builder graduate, Q3 2025.
3rd place in Syntax Error'24 (IITR), 1st place in Shaastra'21 (IITM), 1st place in CrackHack'25 (IIT Mandi), 2nd place at IIT Dhanbad BFX'21, and 3rd place in Monad Blitz Lucknow.
All India Rank 6173 in JEE Advanced, 99.72 percentile in JEE Mains, and scored 100 in Mathematics and Physics.
Cleared Pre-Regional Mathematics Olympiad (PRMO) in 2021.