# Simarpreet Singh

> Simarpreet Singh is a developer advocate, developer relations lead, community builder and technical educator from New Delhi, India. 12K+ developers engaged, 1,000+ builders mentored, 150+ workshops. Partnerships, GTM and ecosystem growth across Web2, AI and Web3.

Roles: Developer Advocate · Developer Relations (DevRel) Lead · Developer Evangelist · Community Builder · Technical Educator · Partnerships & Ecosystem Lead · Go-To-Market (GTM) Lead
Location: New Delhi, India
Email: simarpreetsingh.019@gmail.com
Website: https://simarpreetsingh-019.github.io/

## Summary
I love the moment a developer goes from “what is this?” to “I just shipped it.” I sit between the teams who build developer tools and the developers who use them, turning complex products into workshops, demos and docs, and developer feedback into product fixes.

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).

## Key numbers
- 12K+ developers engaged
- 1,000+ builders mentored
- 150+ workshops & university sessions
- 60+ hackathons partnered
- 15+ college blockchain clubs set up
- 10+ hackathons judged

## Current and recent roles
- Partnership & Ecosystem Lead, SOULVERSE (Jul 2026 — Present)
- India Lead, PizzaDAO (2025 — Present)
- Lead Developer Relations, Tezos India (Oct 2022 — Mar 2025)
- Developer Advocate, Etherlink — L2 on Tezos (Jan 2024 — Apr 2025)
- Founder & Independent Consultant, Web3Panjab (Jul 2022 — Present)
- Research Trainee, DRDO — Scientific Analysis Group (Feb 2022 — Jul 2022)

## Links
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/simarpreet_019
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/simarpreetsingh019
- GitHub: https://github.com/simarpreetsingh-019
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@simarpreet019
- Medium: https://medium.com/@simarpreetsingh.019
- Telegram: https://t.me/simarpreet_019
- All links: https://bio.link/simarpreetsingh
- Full profile for AI assistants: https://simarpreetsingh-019.github.io/llms-full.txt
- Résumé (JSON): https://simarpreetsingh-019.github.io/profile.json
- Developer evangelist résumé (PDF): https://simarpreetsingh-019.github.io/assets/docs/Simarpreet-Singh-Developer-Evangelist-Resume.pdf
- Web3 DevRel résumé (PDF): https://simarpreetsingh-019.github.io/assets/docs/Simarpreet-Singh-Resume.pdf

## What I bring to any developer team
- **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
### Partnership & Ecosystem Lead — SOULVERSE
Jul 2026 — Present · Remote · New Delhi
https://soulverse.us
- Leading partnerships and ecosystem growth for trust infrastructure spanning identity, credentials, validation and settlement.
- Working across RWA, digital assets and tokenization to bring programmable trust into fintech and Web3 products.

### India Lead — PizzaDAO
2025 — Present · PAN India
https://x.com/Pizza_DAO
- Managed and hosted 40+ in-person events across India for Bitcoin Pizza Day, all running at the same time on the same day.
- Spent two months planning India's edition of the Global Bitcoin Pizza Party with the PizzaDAO team.
- Co-hosted PizzaDAO's community party during ETHGlobal New Delhi and helped execute its Delhi event.

### Lead Developer Relations — Tezos India
Oct 2022 — Mar 2025 · Remote / Hybrid
https://in.linkedin.com/company/tezos-india-foundation
- Owned developer relations for Tezos L1 and was then entrusted to lead developer advocacy for Etherlink (EVM L2) in India, expanding into onboarding, ecosystem programs and technical enablement.
- Grew ecosystem developer activity 4×, from 3,000 to 12,000+ engaged developers, through workshops, developer clubs and onboarding series.
- Launched and scaled the [TezAsia Hackathon](https://unstop.com/competitions/tezasia-hackathon-30-tezos-india-695650) from 1,500 to 13,000+ participants, with 1,050+ submissions and 200+ projects reaching MVP.
- Led 150+ workshops and university programs across India and Southeast Asia, mentoring 1,000+ builders and driving a 26% increase in first-time smart-contract deployers. Many sessions are [recorded in this playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNO985wwQsV5BMBRIO4ZHddWqkjQfSqxG).
- Ran flagship enablement programs (TezConnect, TezDay and [Tezos BuilderCamp](https://code8tezos-ruby.vercel.app/), 2 cohorts with a 75% graduation rate) with certification-style learning tracks, architecture reviews and live POC demos for startups, universities and 80+ hackathon partners; helped introduce the [Tezos Guilds model](https://medium.com/tezos-india-foundation/tezos-india-guild-fostering-collaboration-and-innovation-80ab37792598) with 20+ community leads.
- Built production-grade dApps and reusable React templates for SDK demos (React, Ethers.js, Solidity, SmartPy), showing EVM compatibility, wallet authentication and contract-interaction patterns.
- Worked with wallet, explorer and protocol teams to improve SDK usability, including a 24% activation lift for Naan Wallet; open-source [starter kits](https://github.com/simarpreetsingh-019/TIProjects) and public content increased new project creation by 15%.
- Co-created a credit-based blockchain curriculum with the University of the Philippines.

### Developer Advocate — Etherlink — L2 on Tezos
Jan 2024 — Apr 2025 · Remote
https://etherlink.com
- Created Solidity-to-Etherlink transition content, including starter kits, CLI onboarding videos and gas-comparison explainers, cutting Discord onboarding queries by 40%.
- Ran 30+ EVM workshops and supported 100+ hackathon submissions; 18 teams continued building with mentorship and grants.
- Launched the [Etherlink Project Showcase on GitHub](https://github.com/simarpreetsingh-019/TIProjects) to spotlight dApps built after hackathons and inspire new builders.

### Founder & Independent Consultant — Web3Panjab
Jul 2022 — Present · Delhi · Chandigarh · Remote
https://x.com/web3panjab
- Leading grassroots blockchain education in underrepresented regions of North India through local meetups, onboarding sessions and contributor teams.
- Since April 2025, shipped two production frontends for paying clients, [SuiSips](https://suisips.com) and [YinYang (v1)](http://app.yinyang.bet), using AI-assisted development workflows (v0, Cursor, Claude), while hosting developer events for Web3 companies.
- Generated $9K in revenue at a 44% margin across consulting and events in 8 months.
- Lead host and program manager for a 40+ event PAN-India developer networking series in May 2026, with a $20K+ budget.
- Built an independent, developer-focused YouTube series testing new tools on Sui through [hands-on tutorials](https://youtu.be/u3LAXnwkj4A).
- Co-hosted events such as AI After Hours with Hyperbolic, and advised 7+ companies on PAN-India tours and incubation onboarding.

### Research Trainee — DRDO — Scientific Analysis Group
Feb 2022 — Jul 2022 · New Delhi
- Researched secure data transmission using Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) and steganography.

## Timeline
- May 2026 — Bitcoin Pizza Day across India: After two months of planning with PizzaDAO, hosted 40+ in-person Bitcoin Pizza Day events across India, all on the same day. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/2058184415742935451)
- 2026 — Content creation era: Made creating content a consistent habit.
- Oct 2025 — PizzaDAO in Delhi: Helped PizzaDAO execute its Delhi community event. (https://x.com/ariutokintumi/status/1979597118626242655)
- Sep 2025 — First ETHGlobal: New Delhi: Attended my first ETHGlobal event in New Delhi and co-hosted a community party with the EVVM team. It was a huge success. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1972374851685142850)
- 2025 — Shipping for clients: Shipped two production frontends for paying clients, including SuiSips, using AI-assisted workflows with v0, Cursor and Claude. (https://suisips.com)
- Apr 2025 — Back to Web3Panjab: Stepped away from Tezos India to focus on Web3Panjab, making it sustainable through paid events and freelance work.
- Nov 2024 — Speaker at GDG DevFest New Delhi: Once an attendee, then a community partner, now a speaker: at GDG New Delhi's DevFest I showed how to deploy EVM-compatible code on Tezos using Etherlink. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1854956350486257850)
- Aug 2024 — WebX Asia, Tokyo: Attended WebX 2024 in Tokyo, one of Asia's largest Web3 conferences. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1828700897024897172)
- Aug 2024 — ETHTokyo: Made it to ETHTokyo and joined the builder community in Japan. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1827217062437253223)
- Aug 2024 — First solo international trip: Japan: Travelled to Japan on my own for the first time, a trip built around ETHTokyo and WebX.
- May 2024 — Bitcoin Pizza Day with PizzaDAO: Hosted a Bitcoin Pizza Day party with PizzaDAO, supported by Flipster, Intract and Bitget India. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1793555337855033815)
- Apr 2024 — Workshop & panel at Chandigarh University: Ran a hands-on workshop and a panel discussion on blockchain and dApps with the Tezos DevRel team and Antier. (https://x.com/antier_official/status/1783074497949556908)
- Jan 2024 — SmartPy workshops, online: Ran interactive online sessions on building on Tezos with SmartPy. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1752327325562310663)
- Jan 2024 — SmartPy workshop at IGDTUW, Delhi: My first offline session of 2024: developing on Tezos with SmartPy, hosted with the IGDTUW team. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1750960275715727625)
- Jan 2024 — Developer advocate for Etherlink: Took on developer advocacy for Etherlink, the EVM Layer 2 on Tezos, alongside my Tezos India role.
- Dec 2023 — ETHIndia 2023: Back at ETHIndia in Bengaluru for its 2023 edition. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1733730763353596411)
- Dec 2023 — TezDay in Bengaluru: Hosted a Tezos India TezDay meetup in Whitefield, Bengaluru, during ETHIndia week. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1730205934688080189)
- Sep 2023 — Blockchain orientation at MSIT: Led an in-person orientation session on blockchain for students at Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, New Delhi. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1702368211415810182)
- 2023 — Speaker at Web3Conf India: Spoke at the second edition of Web3Conf India on Metaverse-as-a-Service and how it works with blockchain.
- 2023 — Full-time DevRel Lead: Moved into a full-time role as Developer Relations Lead at Tezos India.
- Dec 2022 — First Web3 conference: ETHIndia: Attended my first Web3 conference, which was also my first trip for one. I learned a lot.
- Oct 2022 — Joined Tezos India: Joined Tezos India as a Developer Relations intern, focused on onboarding developers to the Tezos blockchain in India.
- 1 Oct 2022 — First offline Web3Panjab session: Organised two meetups in Chandigarh on the same day and gave my first in-person talk: an introduction to Web3 and blockchain. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1577737002975645696)
- Sep 2022 — A month of firsts: Attended the Solana Hacker House in New Delhi, received a Linux Foundation travel scholarship to Open Source Summit in Dublin, and became the CoinDCX local chapter lead for Chandigarh. (https://x.com/simarpreet_019/status/1572150109206638592)
- 16 Jul 2022 — The Web3Panjab journey begins: Launched Web3Panjab in Chandigarh to promote Web3 and open source and to onboard new people across Punjab and North India. It has hosted many events since.
- 2022 — The Web3 leap: Began the year as a research trainee at DRDO, then founded Web3Panjab and joined Tezos India in Developer Relations. I never looked back.
- 2021 — Technical writing & GirlScript Winter of Code: Worked as a technical content writer at The SidePath and contributed to GirlScript Winter of Code.
- 2020 — Open-source season: Top 25 contributor at Contributor's Hack (Student Code-In), working on YouthIcon ML datasets for Asian languages. Also a student trainee at Quantel.
- 2020 — DSC GTBIT & CPPIndia: Outreach and logistics head at DSC GTBIT, competitive programming mentor, and session moderator for CPPIndia.
- 2019 — NASA Space Apps: Won 1st prize at the NASA Space Apps Challenge prequalifier and finished in the Top 10 at the India North-region qualifiers.
- 2019 — First hackathon win: Won 3rd prize at HackGTBIT and was a Top-5 Campus Ambassador for ESYA '19 at IIIT Delhi. The hackathon bug bit hard.

## 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. https://suisips.com
- **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. https://sim-miden-demo-main.vercel.app/
- **Etherlink Project Showcase** (Etherlink · GitHub) — A showcase repo spotlighting dApps built on Tezos and Etherlink after hackathons, alongside demo apps for workshop attendees. https://github.com/simarpreetsingh-019/TIProjects
- **Gitfund** (Web3 · OSS) — Auto-pays open-source contributors for merged PRs using programmable smart-contract logic. https://github.com/simarpreetsingh-019/TIProjects/tree/main/Gitfund
- **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. https://json-visual.vercel.app
- **OverWatch TS** (Open source) — Built the initial example template for overwatch-ts, a lightweight state-management library for Next.js. https://github.com/simarpreetsingh-019/overwatch/tree/main
- **Virtual Tweet Gallery** (Community tool) — The W3EventGallery bot collects event tweets into a shared gallery of memories. https://web3panjab.github.io/SolanaHHDilli/
- **German → English Translator** (ML) — A Seq2Seq-with-attention tutorial implementation for German-to-English translation. https://github.com/soumyajit4419/YouthIcon
- **Face Detection & Recognition** (OpenCV) — Haar-cascade face and eye detection that can also save and recognise faces by name. https://github.com/simarpreetsingh-019/face-recognition--girlscript-jaipur-project-

## Articles
- [Detecting Geometrical Shapes in an Image using OpenCV](https://medium.com/simply-dev/detecting-geometrical-shapes-in-an-image-using-opencv-bad67c40174f) — Computer Vision, May 2020
- [Paying ATTN Might Just Be the Next Alpha: The Rise of AttentionCoins](https://medium.com/@simarpreetsingh.019/paying-attn-might-just-be-the-next-alpha-the-rise-of-attentioncoins-attention-is-all-you-13b6c2bbb5f0) — Web3, May 2025
- [What is Canny Edge Detection?](https://medium.com/simply-dev/what-is-canny-edge-detection-cfefa272a8d0) — Computer Vision, Apr 2020
- [Why Arbitrum Stands Out: A Developer's Perspective on Ethereum Scaling](https://medium.com/@simarpreetsingh.019/why-arbitrum-stands-out-a-developers-perspective-on-ethereum-scaling-f9121124d073) — Layer 2, Feb 2025
- [Getting Started with Python](https://medium.com/simply-dev/getting-started-with-python-c22347a78403) — Python, Feb 2022
- [A New Chapter in Blockchain: The Story of Berachain](https://medium.com/@simarpreetsingh.019/a-new-chapter-in-blockchain-the-story-of-berachain-76768d21e40b) — Web3, Feb 2025
- [Learning JavaScript & Sharing What I Know, Part 1](https://medium.com/simply-dev/learning-javascript-sharing-what-i-know-about-it-lets-see-where-it-goes-part-1-2254c369d56a) — JavaScript, Mar 2025
- [How Eco Revamps Stablecoin Transactions](https://medium.com/@simarpreetsingh.019/the-revolution-of-onchain-interactions-how-eco-revamps-stablecoin-transactions-9961b73b50ba) — Stablecoins, Jan 2025
- [OnePlus 7T: My Best Companion](https://medium.com/@simarpreetsingh.019/oneplus-7t-my-best-companion-660f75229f44) — Off-topic, Apr 2020

## Talks and videos
### Solidity → Move
- [What is Move lang: from Solidity to Move, a dev's perspective](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u9tOdSCmIs)
- [What is Sui Move?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3LAXnwkj4A)
- [Sui SIP 6 explained: StakedSui](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E190cj6JjZ0)

### Dapp Breakdown
- [Sui Starter Pack: getting started with Sui](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FK9SONxOzA)
- [Sui Starter Pack, extended: bridging ETH to Sui](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79igTDkRZc)
- [What is Exa Protocol? Running an Exa node in 2 minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgB53FE4Wo0)
- [What is Berafarm? Berafarm 101 on Berachain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5QY4f2zlys)
- [What is IVX Fi on Berachain?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_ve3oFRr4)
- [StealthVote: anonymous voting with Miden SDK ZK proofs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYPuabLJh8)

### On Stage
- [Etherlink: a step towards the future](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vixLGDBWKk) — Tezos JH
- [TezAsia Hackathon 2023: Kickoff Event](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMPb0g-LS4) — Tezos India
- [Unlocking Metaverse-as-a-Service (Web3Conf)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aixfHAJ0vA) — Web3Conf India
- [Get Started with Etherlink at Hack4Bengal 3.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiPHJDR5Ng0) — Hack4Bengal
- [Etherlink Workshop with Tezos India](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vob3wCOYqJI) — Crash Talks
- [Intro to Etherlink at CodeWave Hub](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0tR9XGCnw) — CodeWave Hub
- [SmartPy and Tezos Workshop, Tezos Club SATI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhox07X9-iw) — NextGen Code
- [Tezos India Hackathon: SmartPy at Hansraj College, Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqA2u741qU) — Web3 Entirety
- [Tezos India Hackathon: SmartPy at Hansraj College, Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznhBUJ3OI0) — Web3 Entirety
- [Web3 using Tezos webinar at DSU DevHack 2024](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-adfu-rM14) — DSU DevHack
- [Building a dapp on Tezos with LIGO, Part 1 (TezAsia 3.0)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fVvIuCaDFc) — Tezos India
- [Building a dapp on Tezos with LIGO, Part 2 (TezAsia 3.0)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnA-UUXGr3Y) — Tezos India
- [Smart contracts with SmartPy: new syntax (TezAsia 3.0)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cWSrqpvXG8) — Tezos India
- [Connecting dApp frontends with Taquito.js (TezAsia 3.0)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5Zlriu1oM) — Tezos India
- [Understanding Rollups on Tezos (TezAsia 3.0)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFzPrBZyBZY) — Tezos India
- [Tezos deployment and management with Zeeve (TezAsia 3.0)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SV8C_-KI2k) — Tezos India
- [Demo Day: TezAsia Hackathon 3.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NenHLrSWgJQ) — Tezos India

## 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

_Last updated: 2026-09-30_