I'm Santhil Kherwal, a 20-year-old developer who'd rather deploy smart contracts than attend lectures (sorry, JIIT).
I lead engineering at a real company, build decentralized products people actually use, and somehow still manage to pass my exams. Currently a 2nd year at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, but let's be honest the interesting stuff happens outside the classroom.
Here's what I've been up to:
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A Decentralized Timestamp Notary on Ethereum. The idea is dead simple: prove you had a file on a specific date. No uploads. No middlemen. No trust required...just cryptographic math anchored on-chain, permanently. Your file never touches a server. We compute a SHA-256 hash entirely in your browser using the Web Crypto API, then anchor that fingerprint on Ethereum. Once it's on-chain, nobody — not a government, not a corporation, not even us — can alter or backdate it. The numbers so far:
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Tech Lead — and yes, one of the youngest in the country to hold that title at a production e-commerce company. At 20, I'm leading the entire tech stack for a nutrition & supplements brand shipping across India. Not an internship. Not a "student project." An actual company with actual revenue and actual customers who get angry if the website breaks. What I built from the ground up:
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blockchain & web3 — the stuff that keeps me up at night
frontend — where I make things look unreasonably good
backend & infra — the invisible part that makes everything else possible



