About
Fullstack Builder
Sedhu
aka Sedhuraja Nallayan
👨💻 Passionately curious engineer and avid builder with 14+ years of full-stack experience designing and scaling cloud and on-premise applications.
Interested in
startups, personal-finance, indiehacking, web3, blockchain, ai, crypto
🧠 I am learning
- 🤖 Artificial Intelligence — Foundation models, deep learning, LLMs, and AI applications
- 🦾 AI Agents — Autonomous AI systems and multi-agent frameworks
- 📚 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) — Enhancing LLMs with external knowledge
- 🕸️ Graph RAG — Knowledge graphs for improved context and reasoning in RAG systems
- 💻 System Design — Building high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems
📝 Recent Posts
I write about technology, engineering, and my journey in building products. Here are my latest blog posts:
🛠️ I Use
- 🧩 Problem Solving, Complex System Design, Algorithmic Thinking
- 🚀 0 to 1 Product Development, MVP Ideation, Rapid Prototyping
- 🌐 JavaScript, NodeJS, Typescript, React, NestJS, REST, Python, FastAPI, Java
- 💾 MySQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Timestream, MongoDB, Athena
- ⛓️ Blockchain, Web3, Smart Contracts, Ethereum, Solidity, Hyperledger
- ☁️ AWS, GCP, Serverless, SSO, Streams, ETL
👨💻 I code and I code like horse 🐴 (Awarded by ChatGPT)
Updated At: 4/21/2026, 12:00:00 AM
💼 I have contributed to
🚀 OrbitxPay (orbitxpay.com)
VP of Engineering · June 2025 – Present
🐶 Cypher YC'22 (cypherhq.io)
Head of Engineering · May 2022 – March 2025
- 🏗️ Architected Cypher Non Custodial Multi Chain Wallet Suite with cross-platform compatibility
- 💳 Developed Multi Entry Ledger System with real-time authorization for VISA and Mastercard (p99: 140ms) with Reconciliation / Fraud Detection
- 📊 Implemented smart contracts for autoload features and portfolio balance updates
- 👥 Led teams to create new ideas that support business goals
🔷 VMWare Software India Pvt Ltd
Member of Technical Staff · Oct 2018 – May 2022
- 🔍 Designed Enterprise Ethereum Blockchain Explorer
- 🔐 Developed Solidity Smart Contracts for privacy-centric enterprise solutions
- 🌐 Led Management plane team for IPv6 Support implementation
- ✨ Designed / Developed VeloUtils Shared NPM Library for all IP n Network Config Validations and Transformations
🔶 Freshworks Technologies Pvt Ltd
Senior Product Developer · Jul 2016 – Sep 2018
- 📊 Developed reporting platform for Freshdesk suite of Products
- 🔄 Designed ETL Architecture and AWS Stack with Redshift
🔵 Cisco (Formerly BroadSoft Technologies)
Software Engineer · Mar 2014 – Jul 2016
🔴 Aegify (Formerly eGestalt Technologies)
Software Engineer · Apr 2011 – Feb 2014
📚 I recommend / have read / reading
- 📕The Book Of Clarity
- 📓Atomic Habits
- 📕Remote · Rework
- 📘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- 📗Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 📗Skill It, Kill It
- 📙Radical Candor
- 📔The Making of a Manager
- 📓The Staff Engineer's Path
- 📒Thinking in Bets
- 📕Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- 📘Tuesdays with Morrie
- 📗The Art of Being Alone
- 📙Rich Dad Poor Dad
- 📕Tiny Experiments
📫 I can be reached at
- 🐦 Twitter @imsedhu
- 👔 LinkedIn @sedhuraja
- 📧 Email mail(at)sedhu(dot)me
- 💻 GitHub @sedhuait
- 💻 GitHub Old @cysedhu
- 🤔 Stackoverflow @sedhu
- 📝 Resume sedhu.me/sedhuraja_resume.pdf