Gajesh Naik

Gajesh Naik is a Sr Software Engineer at Eigen Labs, where he works on EigenCloud. He began coding at age 7 using Scratch, progressing to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript. At age 10 he completed an internship at a multinational company where he built a chatbot. At 12 he completed the Google Foobar challenge in six hours. At 13 he entered blockchain development, taking on freelance work before launching Gaj Finance, a DeFi and NFT platform on Polygon that reached $7 million in total value locked within two months. He officially stepped away from that project in February 2023.

In April 2022 he joined Solana Labs as an intern. He subsequently launched Taksh, a gamified cross-chain yield aggregator, raising $1.3 million in pre-seed and seed funding before the project was acquired. He briefly worked with FTX on dApp development until the company went bankrupt in November 2022. After FTX, he contributed to Telegram Wallet as a Founding Software Engineer and also worked with Solana Labs and LayerZero Labs. He joined Eigen Labs in July 2023. His GitHub profile, active under the handle Gajesh2007 with 240 public repositories, shows recent contributions to Eigen Labs projects including agent-kit-templates, eigencloud-docs, eigencompute-containers, and ecloud. He holds certifications in Python from the University of Michigan, JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures from freeCodeCamp, Responsive Web Design from freeCodeCamp, and cloud architecture credentials from Qwiklabs, alongside Google Analytics certifications.