Journey

A timeline of my learning, projects, and milestones.

My Journey

A timeline of my learning, products, hackathon wins, and career milestones as a Blockchain and Full Stack Developer.

2026

Current Work

  • 💼 Blockchain Developer at Hooman Digital
    • Building and maintaining Moros, Orcus, Claros, Tethra, and other production blockchain systems
    • Working across Rust, Soroban, Solidity, Move, TypeScript, Circom, and zero-knowledge proofs

August

  • 🌟 Selected for the Stellar Builder Residency Jaipur with Moros, held from August 21 to August 25, 2026
  • 🚀 Expanded Moros into private financial infrastructure on Stellar Mainnet
    • Launched Moros Pay for shielded Circle USDC payments, signed requests, encrypted recovery, and withdrawals
    • Built Moros Predict, Stellar's first private prediction market, from the same privacy engineering
    • Implemented 22 BN254 Groth16 circuits across private payment and prediction workflows

July

  • 🏆 Won Stellar Build Station Pune 2026 with Moros on July 25 after the build station ran from July 4 to July 25

June

  • 🏆 Orcus received the 0G APAC Hackathon 2026 Excellence Award on June 12, worth approximately $4,000

March

  • 🤝 Attended EthMumbai'26

2025

November

  • 🏆 Won EthNile'25 Flare Track for RadiShield, a parametric crop insurance platform

October

  • 💼 Joined Hooman Digital as a Blockchain Developer
  • 🏆 Won ZetaChain Vibeathon 2025 with ZetaFlow, a cross-chain transaction visualizer

September

  • 🏆 Won Stellar National Bounty Hackathon 2025 with Blitz, a QR auction platform on Stellar

April - October

  • 💼 Freelance Blockchain Developer - Built DApps, smart contracts, and NFT marketplaces
  • 🛠️ Built Lumina NFT Marketplace on Somnia Network

2024

November - April 2025

  • 🌐 Open Source Contributor at MetaBrainz Foundation
    • Contributed to MusicBrainz and ListenBrainz projects
    • Implemented mini music player, dynamic PlayButton features
    • Bug fixes and UI improvements

August - November

  • 📱 Android Developer at Nanoquest
    • Built Android applications with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
    • Material Design 3 implementation

May - August

  • 💻 Full Stack Developer Intern at Proptelligence Technologies
    • Web applications with React.js and Node.js
    • Database operations with PostgreSQL and MongoDB

Achievements & Hackathons

  • 🌟 Stellar Builder Residency Jaipur 2026 - Selected with Moros, August 21 to August 25
  • 🥇 Stellar Build Station Pune 2026 - Winner with Moros on July 25
  • 🏆 0G APAC Hackathon 2026 - Excellence Award with Orcus on June 12, approximately $4,000
  • 🥇 Stellar National Bounty Hackathon 2025 - Winner with Blitz
  • 🥇 ZetaChain Vibeathon 2025 - Winner with ZetaFlow
  • 🏅 EthNile'25 Flare Track - Winner with RadiShield

Skills Acquired

  • Blockchain: Stellar, Soroban, EVM networks, Sui, Casper, Solidity, Move, Rust
  • Privacy: Circom, Groth16, BN254, commitments, nullifiers, encrypted recovery
  • Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
  • Mobile: Kotlin, Android, Jetpack Compose
  • Backend: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Open Source Contributions

  • MetaBrainz Foundation - MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz, Picard
  • Active contributor to the open-source community

Shreyas Patil