Manobendra Mandal
Blockchain Developer
Ayyoh! You don't have to read my full name. Call me Manov or Mandal. I care a lot about clean architecture and probably have a little OCD when building websites. I enjoy digging into protocols, cloud infrastructure, and low-level stuff, always curious about how things work under the hood. When I'm not coding, you'll find me strolling through a park, at a momo shop, playing guitar, or cooking dinner.
Experience
- Architected and scaled the backend for a Web3 platform with real-time events, AI content, and on-chain USDC rewards; designed and shipped 130+ REST APIs across authentication, events, rewards, and analytics using Node.js, Prisma, and PostgreSQL.
- Built production-grade asynchronous and real-time infrastructure using Redis, BullMQ, and Socket.IO, powering background jobs, scheduled workloads, event processing, and user activity pipelines.
- Implemented Privy/JWT wallet authentication, ERC-4337 smart accounts, and gasless transactions via Pimlico; integrated Resend and deployed Dockerized services on AWS, owning production infrastructure and releases.
Projects
NordStern
LiveAnchor Infrastructure as a Service — lets fintechs and wallets become compliant Stellar anchors without building the SEP, KYC, and treasury stack themselves.
Stellalpha
LiveOn-chain copy-trading protocol on Solana — follow top wallets and mirror their trades automatically via smart vaults.
Unzap Contract Lab
LiveStarknet developer studio — deploy, verify, and interact with Cairo contracts from a browser-based IDE.
Mizu Pay
LiveDecentralized checkout platform/extension enabling real-world purchases using Celo stablecoins.
Achievements
Won a $10,000 grant from Solana Superteam India for building PRISM Protocol.
Built and demonstrated a production-oriented Stellar Anchor infrastructure stack integrating SEP-1/10/12/24 and Indian payment rails.
Won a $10,000 grant for building Omeswap on Avalanche.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications · Kolkata, West Bengal
Higher Secondary · Kulti, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal
Primary & Secondary · Kathmandu, Nepal
Skills & Technologies
Notes
Back in 2015, my father set up a desktop at home for me and my brother. 1GB RAM, some random processor that I didn't care about and 128GB Hard Drive Storage. The goal was simple: learn typing, Excel, basic computer skills, internet familiarity etc. At that age I honestly…
Most people scrolling right now have no idea what actually happens when they tap "Like" on this post. Even my fellow devs, would just say: "An HTTP request is sent to the X's API". True. But that's just the visible tip of the iceberg.
Fast forward to now. College is over, and life looks very different from what I had imagined when I started. After graduation, I took a drop year to explore opportunities and casually thinking about doing a master's abroad, since pursuing one here didn't feel very valuable…
“Study hard and get out of this stupid place.”