Manav Notnani.
Founding Engineer — Backend & Platform
I own the full path from idea to production: product, backend, cloud, security and delivery.
Currently building Bloom, a market-intelligence social platform for crypto. I ship fast on small teams, with AI agents as part of my daily workflow.
The short version.
Product scoping, backend and infrastructure, the security surface, delivery — on a small team I own the whole line, not one slice of it.
My focus is the layer most users never see — APIs, queues, real-time pipelines, and the on-chain rails underneath them. The systems I've shipped have moved real money, served live data at scale, and held up under production pressure.
My sweet spot is the Web3 × AI intersection: real-time blockchain pipelines, account abstraction, agent infrastructure, and the tokenization rails underneath them. I've shipped on Solana, EVM, and Move ecosystems.
Outside the day job, I build with friends, ship hackathon projects, and occasionally win some. I'm most useful on small teams where the distance between an idea and production is short.
Where I've been shipping.
- Feb 2025 — Present
Founding Engineer @ Bloom.social
Remote · Londonmarket-intelligence social platform
- Joined as one of the first engineers; built the backend (5 services), cloud infrastructure across 4 environments, security baseline and core data systems from zero.
- Took Bloom to production: designed the cloud platform end to end and captured it as infrastructure-as-code — proven by a greenfield rebuild of 95 resources with zero drift.
- Built the intelligence layer — trending pipeline, creator-attribution engine, rewards ledger, global search — from schema to public API to frontend; search lookups 62.8 ms → 0.32 ms.
- Own market-data quality across 17k+ tokens: corroborated market-cap ranking, source provenance, de-duplication and repair after fabricated tokens outranked ETH.
- Cut web boot payload 5.0 MB → 1.5 MB and API calls per page ~50%; fixed a bug silently dropping 42% of notifications; reduced high-severity dependency advisories 71 → 7.
- Introduced agent-first engineering across the backend: repo context for coding agents, an MCP integration layer, deploy notifications and merge gates that catch broken migrations before release.
- Apr 2022 — Feb 2025
Software Development Engineer @ Antier Solutions
Chandigarh, India- Led end-to-end delivery of a real-world asset tokenization platform that raised $17.5M, owning technical scoping, stakeholder communication, and release timelines.
- Built backend infrastructure for WenLucky, a Solana-based lottery platform handling wallet integrations, transaction processing, and on-chain data retrieval.
- Defined a microservices architecture strategy that improved scalability by 30% and reduced time-to-deploy across the platform.
- Apr 2021 — Mar 2022
Backend Developer @ Freelance
Remote- Built backend APIs and Web3 integrations for early-stage startups using Node.js and ethers.js.
- Implemented token and ICO functionality for an early-stage DeFi project, including transaction flows and reliability test suites that reduced production errors by 25%.
Things I've built outside the day job.
Womdo
Ecosystem GranteeHackathon winnerAI-rated decentralised influencer-advertising platform. $35K CrossFi grant, Chainlink Blockmagic winner.
Verafied
AI media-authenticity platform. Built and shipped solo with AI agents: detection, dual invisible watermarking (survives JPEG q75+), on-chain anchoring, certificate registry, payments and public verification. 100+ automated tests.
Abstraxn
White-label embedded wallet infrastructure for enterprise Web3 onboarding — invisible wallets with account abstraction (ERC-4337), EIP-7702, and AI agent support for friction-free UX across any chain.
Blacktie.digital
End-to-end RWA tokenization platform built to Tokeny standards. Led the backend, building multiple microservices interacting with on-chain smart contracts for compliance, issuance, and settlement.
Kryzel
Decentralized sports prediction markets on Aptos — low-fee, on-chain markets with sub-second finality.
W-Access
Ecosystem ProjectConsumer-friendly Web3 onboarding for W-Chain — frictionless wallet creation, human-readable addresses, and secure key management built to make mass adoption real. Shipped as an ecosystem project for W-Chain.
Tools I reach for.
Backend
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
Security
Blockchain & Web3
AI
Let's talk.
Open to founding and senior backend roles — full-time, remote or relocation.
Always up for a conversation about Web3 infrastructure, AI integrations, or interesting engineering problems. Drop a line — I respond fast.