I turn curious developers into builders.

Part engineer, part community builder.

I'm Simarpreet, Partnership & Ecosystem Lead at SOULVERSE, where we are building the trust layer that connects identity, credentials, compliance and payments.

Before that, I spent 2.5 years leading Developer Relations at Tezos India and evangelising Etherlink, an EVM rollup on Tezos. I ran workshops across India and Southeast Asia, scaled the TezAsia hackathon from 1,500 to 13,000+ participants, and co-created a credit-based blockchain course with the University of the Philippines.

Alongside that, I run Web3Panjab, a grassroots community onboarding North India to Web3, and a YouTube series on building with Sui from a Solidity developer's perspective. I hold a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from GTBIT, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (2018–2022).

What I bring to any dev team.

Stack-agnostic skills, proven on real developer programs. The tools change; the job of getting developers from first contact to shipped does not.

• Developer onboarding: −40% onboarding questions

  Starter kits, CLI walkthroughs and explainer videos cut repeat onboarding questions on Discord by 40%.

• Technical education: 150+ workshops & sessions

  Mentored 1,000+ builders through structured workshops and live POC demos, and co-created a credit-backed course for 72 students at the University of the Philippines.

• Developer programs: 75% graduation rate

  Designed a two-cohort builder camp; 60+ developers stayed on as long-term contributors.

• Product feedback loop: +24% wallet activation

  Worked with wallet, explorer and protocol teams to turn developer feedback into SDK fixes, including a 24% activation lift for Naan Wallet.

• Events & hackathons: 1.5K → 13K+ hackathon participants

  Scaled a flagship hackathon nearly 9×, and ran 40+ in-person community events across India on a single day.

• Content & storytelling: 35+ articles & videos

  Tutorials, talks and explainers on Medium, dev.to and YouTube, written for beginners and experienced developers alike.

Also at home in

• Google developer communities: GDG DevFest New Delhi speaker · Outreach head, Google Developer Student Club (GTBIT)
• Open source: Linux Foundation travel scholarship to Open Source Summit · GirlScript Winter of Code · Top-25 at Contributor's Hack
• AI & computer vision: OpenCV projects and articles · Seq2Seq translator · co-hosted AI After Hours with Hyperbolic
• Frontend & APIs: React and Next.js prototypes · OverWatch TS template · SDK and wallet integrations
• AI-assisted building: Shipped two production frontends for paying clients with v0, Cursor and Claude
• Research: Secure data transmission with reversible data hiding and steganography at DRDO

Work experience

Projects

• SuiSips

  Next.js · Client build. A production SIP tracker and community platform for the Sui ecosystem: proposals synced from GitHub, discussions, articles, videos and a curated tweet wall. Built with Next.js, React Markdown and Tailwind CSS.

• Miden SDK Simulator

  React · Miden SDK. An interactive demo of anonymous, privacy-preserving voting on Miden's ZK rollup SDK. Scoped, built and shipped with no prior Miden experience, to show how any new SDK becomes learnable through a working demo.

• Etherlink Project Showcase

  Etherlink · GitHub. A showcase repo spotlighting dApps built on Tezos and Etherlink after hackathons, alongside demo apps for workshop attendees.

• Gitfund

  Web3 · OSS. Auto-pays open-source contributors for merged PRs using programmable smart-contract logic.

• JSON API Visualizer

  Next.js · Live tool. Fetch any public REST API and explore the response as an interactive graph and tree. Built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and v0.

• OverWatch TS

  Open source. Built the initial example template for overwatch-ts, a lightweight state-management library for Next.js.

• Virtual Tweet Gallery

  Community tool. The W3EventGallery bot collects event tweets into a shared gallery of memories.

• German → English Translator

  ML. A Seq2Seq-with-attention tutorial implementation for German-to-English translation.

• Face Detection & Recognition

  OpenCV. Haar-cascade face and eye detection that can also save and recognise faces by name.

Articles

• Detecting Geometrical Shapes in an Image using OpenCV (Computer Vision, May 2020): Contours, polygon approximation and a vertex count: how a few lines of OpenCV tell a triangle from a hexagon.
• Paying ATTN Might Just Be the Next Alpha: The Rise of AttentionCoins (Web3, May 2025): Attention is the most valuable on-chain asset. What if you could mine a token simply by paying attention?
• What is Canny Edge Detection? (Computer Vision, Apr 2020): The five-step algorithm behind crisp edges, explained with code.
• Why Arbitrum Stands Out: A Developer's Perspective on Ethereum Scaling (Layer 2, Feb 2025)
• Getting Started with Python (Python, Feb 2022)
• A New Chapter in Blockchain: The Story of Berachain (Web3, Feb 2025)
• Learning JavaScript & Sharing What I Know, Part 1 (JavaScript, Mar 2025)
• How Eco Revamps Stablecoin Transactions (Stablecoins, Jan 2025)
• OnePlus 7T: My Best Companion (Off-topic, Apr 2020)

Posts on X

• Apr 8, 2025: Before uploading the third part of my video series on building with Sui from a Solidity dev's perspective, I made a starter pack for people to explore and join the Sui ecosystem.
• May 3, 2025: Attention is the most valuable on-chain asset. Not liquidity. Not memes. Not clout. What if you could mine a token just by paying attention?
• Jan 30, 2025: Procrastinated a lot last year on one of my yearly goals: tech content creation. Finally solved it. I learned about Move, Sui and Aptos and shared it in this video.
• Apr 11, 2025: While bridging USDC from Polygon to Sui, I got stuck. Bridge successful, but couldn't claim. Why? Needed SUI for gas. That rabbit hole led me to…
• May 13, 2025: What is Bluefin? A decentralized exchange on Sui offering low-latency trading, perps, lending and staking. A thread.
• Feb 19, 2025: New video: diving into Sui Move and breaking down Solidity code to see how things change when coding in Move. Episode 2 of the series.
• May 23, 2026: Two months of planning with PizzaDAO, and it was so much fun hosting the Global Bitcoin Pizza Party across India this year.
• Sep 28, 2025: Hosted one of the best parties during ETHGlobal New Delhi, with friends from RollAMate, CoW Swap, Camp Network and PizzaDAO.
• Oct 18, 2025: PizzaDAO thanks @simarpreet_019 for helping execute its Delhi event.
• Sep 20, 2022: An exciting month: Solana Hacker House New Delhi, a Linux Foundation travel scholarship to Open Source Summit Dublin, and becoming CoinDCX's local chapter lead in Chandigarh.

Skills

DevRel & Community

Developer Relations, Developer onboarding, Developer experience, Workshops, Hackathons, Docs & starter kits, Live training, Certification design, POC development, Hackathon mentoring, Technical writing, Public speaking, Partnerships, GTM

Web2 & Frontend

Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, REST APIs, Supabase, Vercel, Web scraping, Git & GitHub, C++, Java

AI & ML

Cursor, Claude, v0 (Vercel), LLM APIs, AI agent frameworks (exploring), Python, OpenCV, Image processing, Computer vision, Seq2Seq & attention models

Web3

Solidity, SmartPy, Move, Rust, Ethers.js, Hardhat, Foundry, Remix, Thirdweb, OpenZeppelin, Taquito.js, Beacon SDK, Web3.js, Tezos, Etherlink, Ethereum / EVM, Sui, Aptos, Arbitrum, Berachain, Miden, Sei, Monad