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title: "Manoj Patra - Smart Contract Developer in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Manoj Patra, Solidity Dev | 2Bn+ TVL | CS @ IIT based in India. AI stack includes cursor and claudecode."
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# Manoj Patra on Tal

## Headline

Solidity Dev \| 2Bn\+ TVL \| CS @ IIT

## About

\- Expertise in Smart Contract Development with a Security\-First Approach \- Built over 5 Dapps handling 2Bn\+ TVL \- Have a total of 5\+ years of Software Development experience spanning over Blockchain\(3\+ yrs\), AI, frontend and backend \- Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT Analytical Mind, Curiosity and Attention to detail is what I bring to the table\. contact : chat\.manojp@gmail\.com

## Location

India

## AI stack

cursor

claudecode

## Work experience

Smart Contract Developer at Stader Labs, Apr 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 5 mos, Remote, Built ETHx, BNBx, MATICx \- Developed Smart Contracts with structured testing \(unit, fuzz, integration\), gas optimization and security measures\. \- Deployed on various EVM chains \(Ethereum, Polygon, Binance\) \- Upgraded BNBx and MATICx \- Reported and Resolved Bugs \- Merkle automations, ERC\-4626 vaults, Upgradeable contracts \- Handled Security Audits and on\-chain tracking \- Developed Ledger Plugins for all Stader Products \(ETHx, BNBx, FTMx, MaticX\)

Senior Smart Contracts Engineer at Kernel DAO, Jan 2025 \- Dec 2025 · 1 yr, Building KernelDao \(Restaking Protocol on Binance\) • Founding Engineer at KernelDao • Built Smart Contracts handling 2BN\+ TVL • Gas optimizations, Gas efficient smart contract, Security Audits • Defi Partner Protocol Integrations • Cross\-functional team collaboration

Smart Contract Engineer \(Mid Senior\) at Kernel DAO, Nov 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Built KelpDao \(Liquid Restaking Protocol on Eigenlayer\) • Designed and implemented LST and Native ETH Restaking solution on EigenLayer, with unit test, integration tests and gas optimizations\. • Secure and timely Eigenlayer upgrades • Oracles and Defi Partner protocols integrations • Reported and Resolved Bugs on Kelp and other defi protocols

Software Engineer \(Backend\) at Flipkart, Mar 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working as Backend Developer, have developed a few widgets, added few features, worked on tasks improving system robustness\. End to End development in all Tasks \(Designing, Documenting, Implementation, Testing, Deployment\) \.

Software Engineer \(Frontend\) at Enphase Energy, Sep 2020 \- Mar 2021 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked in a Team to build the Frontend of System Dashboard, which comprises featureful Tree, Table and Graph components\.

SDE Intern \(ML \- NLP\) at SAMSUNG R&D INSTITUTE INDIA \- BANGALORE PRIVATE LIMITED, May 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 3 mos, India, Problem Statement : Detect out of domain\(OOD\) instructions for dialog systems \(Bixby\)\. Main Challenge : Use only in\-domain data \- Used Domain Category analysis as a auxiliary task to extract neural sentence embedding \- Model1 : used autoencoders\(deep learning arch\.\) for OOD sentence detection\. \- Model2 : build a generative adversarial network \(GAN\) of which the discriminator generates low scores for OOD sentences

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology \(Indian School of Mines\), Dhanbad

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