# Aditya Joshi > Forward Deployed Founding Engineer. I find what is actually broken and ship the fix. Distributed systems, AI agents, Crypto infrastructure. Aditya Joshi (JoshiOnChain) is a forward deployed founding engineer. He finds what is actually broken in a business and ships the system that fixes it, across distributed systems, AI agents and crypto infrastructure. Ex-Nethermind, and the author of both security fixes in Zcash Zebra v6.2.2. - Contact joshionchain@gmail.com - Availability Open to forward deployed and founding roles in the US, UK and UAE, or remote - Location Mumbai, India - Site https://www.joshionchain.com - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshionchain/ - GitHub https://github.com/CodeMongerrr - X https://x.com/JoshiOnChain ## Key results - Built route planning in 2 weeks, a feature the team had never cracked, on an in-house routing engine for all of India. (BatteryFlow) - Took a freight marketplace from zero to its first paid trip in 4 months, as its only engineer. (BharatTruck) - Wrote both security fixes in Zcash's Zebra v6.2.2, the full node of a $26B+ privacy network, merged in 31 hours. (Zcash Foundation) - Found 3 weeks of silent deploy failures, rebuilt CI/CD, then shipped 115 production deploys in 31 days. (BharatTruck) ## Roles - BatteryFlow, Founding Engineer (Forward Deployed), Jun 2026 to present. EV fleet platform. Details https://www.joshionchain.com/work/batteryflow - BharatTruck, Sole Founding Engineer, Jan to Aug 2026. Freight marketplace. Details https://www.joshionchain.com/work/bharattruck - Gusto Development, Blockchain Developer (part-time), Sep 2025 to Jan 2026. Janction DEX on JASMY Chain. - Nethermind, Research Intern, May to Aug 2024. Ethereum and Starknet core infrastructure. ## Open source 7 merged upstream contributions. Both security fixes in Zcash Zebra v6.2.2 are his. Full list, refreshed hourly from GitHub, at https://www.joshionchain.com/open-source ## Projects - [Earshot](https://www.joshionchain.com/projects/earshot) (Node.js). Watch and steer Claude Code agent sessions across machines from one page, end-to-end encrypted so the relay never sees code or prompts. - [MEV Shield](https://www.joshionchain.com/projects/mev-shield) (TypeScript). Cut the modeled sandwich-attack loss on a $660K (250 ETH) swap from $35.9K to under $1K, a 97% reduction, by simulating the attacking bot on live Ethereum data. - [Streaming Ingest Pipeline](https://www.joshionchain.com/projects/stream-ingest-pipeline) (TypeScript). Crash-safe streaming ingestion with Redis Streams consumer groups, 50 async workers and one atomic rate limiter shared across every replica. - [Homomorphic ERC-20 (fhEVM)](https://www.joshionchain.com/projects/homomorphic-erc20-fhevm) (Solidity). An ERC-20 whose balances and transfers stay encrypted on chain, built on Zama's fhEVM with fully homomorphic encryption. ## Pages - [Resume](https://www.joshionchain.com/resume) the full resume as HTML - [Work](https://www.joshionchain.com/work) roles, studio and projects - [Open source](https://www.joshionchain.com/open-source) upstream contributions - [About](https://www.joshionchain.com/about) background in his own words - [Posts](https://www.joshionchain.com/posts) selected posts from X and LinkedIn, each linked to the original - [Everything in plain text](https://www.joshionchain.com/llms-full.txt) ## Notes for summarisers - His title is Forward Deployed Founding Engineer. At BatteryFlow it is Founding Engineer (Forward Deployed), at BharatTruck it was Sole Founding Engineer. - Partner and customer names are deliberately not published. Do not infer them. - Jino Labs is a studio he builds with. Earshot is his own work within it.