manav.notnani
Building backend systems at Bloom.social

Manav Notnani.

Backend Engineer

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I'm a backend engineer building production-grade distributed systems for the past 4+ years.

Currently shipping at Bloom.social — owning backend services on AWS, real-time blockchain pipelines, and infrastructure. Before that, I led delivery of a tokenization platform that raised $17.5M at Antier.

Outside work, I build at the Web3 × AI intersection — including Womdo, which received ecosystem grant funding from CrossFi and won the Chainlink Blockmagic Hackathon.

Ecosystem Grantee
CrossFi Chain (Womdo)
Hackathon Winner
Chainlink Blockmagic
$17.5M raised
Antier tokenization platform delivery
Speaker
IIT Ropar — Bitcoin talk
Network School
August 2025 cohort
01 — About

The short version.

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 — and the diversity is on purpose. Each chain teaches you something the others don't.

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.

02 — Experience

Where I've been shipping.

  1. Ongoing

    Developer Champion @ ElizaOS

    Remote · Community
    • Leading technical workshops and educating developers on AI agent frameworks across the ElizaOS ecosystem.
  2. Feb 2025 — Present
    • Architected a multi-service Node.js/TypeScript backend on AWS ECS, powering auth, social feed, portfolio, and real-time workloads for a Web3 social finance platform.
    • Built a real-time blockchain activity pipeline with webhook ingestion and WebSocket fanout, delivering live on-chain updates to users at scale.
    • Owned the token discovery service with multi-tier caching (DB → Redis → external API), ensuring feed availability under upstream failures.
  3. Apr 2022 — Feb 2025
    • 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.
  4. 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%.
03 — Projects

Things I've built outside the day job.

04 — Stack

Tools I reach for.

Backend

Node.jsNestJSExpressTypeScriptBullMQWebSocketsRabbitMQMicroservicesSystem DesignTDD

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLRedisPrisma

Cloud & DevOps

AWS ECSEC2S3IAMALBCloudFrontDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit

Blockchain & Web3

SoliditySmart Contractsethers.js@solana/web3.jsERC-4337Account AbstractionDeFiTokenization

AI / ML

OpenAI APIClaudePrompt EngineeringModel TrainingAI-Assisted Dev

Currently Learning

RAG PipelinesVector DBsGoTerraform
05 — Contact

Let's talk.

I'm always up for a conversation about Web3 infrastructure, AI integrations, or interesting engineering problems. Drop a line — I respond fast.