Team
The people behind the work.
Engineers and product builders creating high-performance infrastructure for open finance.

Bharath M Shetty
Quantitative Engineer
Builds low-latency trading and quantitative systems at the intersection of software engineering, mathematics, and finance. His background spans matching engines, blockchain indexing, MEV, solver infrastructure, and high-frequency trading.

Jayakumar
Smart Contract Research Engineer
Focuses on Web3 security, automation, and smart contract research. His interest in flash loans led him into DeFi and protocol security, alongside an M.Tech in Cloud Computing and Blockchain Technology.

Praveen Agrawal
Product Engineer
Brings a background in frontend and mobile engineering, with a focus on building crypto products from scratch. He enjoys fast-moving startup environments, end-to-end ownership, and work that improves financial markets.

Pritam Paul
Designer
Creates fast, smooth, and tactile interfaces, drawing on several years designing developer tools in high-stakes B2B SaaS environments. Originally trained in chemical engineering at NIT Durgapur, he brings a generalist approach to raising the bar for product design at Toxic Flow.

Rajat Lavekar
Backend Engineer
Builds performant, high-throughput systems across trading infrastructure and decentralized systems. Previously, he worked on scalable backend architecture at Kaleyra and studied Computer Science at IIT Dharwad.

Rohan Shrothrium
Co-Founder & CTO
Leads work across distributed systems, matching engines, market-making infrastructure, and on-chain exchange technology. He is focused on making decentralized markets faster, deeper, and more efficient.

Shaurya Priyadarshi
Backend Engineer
Builds high-performance backend infrastructure for decentralized markets. An IIT Roorkee Computer Science graduate and former Zepto intern, he brings a competitive-programming mindset to performance-critical systems.

Vaibhav Prakash
Co-Founder & CEO
Leads Toxic Flow Labs in building the liquidity layer for Monad and user-friendly financial applications. His background spans product, growth, design, and strategy at early-stage Web3 startups, including Notebook Labs and Metapass, after studying Business Administration at CMS Bangalore.