Hrik Bhowal
Founding Smart Contract Eng at Axiom
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarHrik Bhowal is a founding smart contract engineer based in New York with seven years of hands-on experience building EVM-native systems. He has moved rapidly through blockchain-focused roles at Axiom, Molecular Labs, Origin Protocol, and Owl Protocol, combining full-stack sensibilities with deep on-chain expertise. Known as an "EVM performance artist," he focuses on gas-efficient, auditable smart contracts and pragmatic protocol engineering. Hrik brings founder‑level ownership to early-stage projects, shaping architecture while shipping production-ready contracts. His background spans both core contract development and integration work, enabling him to bridge product and infrastructure needs. Colleagues describe him as a developer who treats optimization and security as design features rather than afterthoughts.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (46)
tooling10
uniswap10
solidity10
vyper10
testing10
evm10
alloy10
yield10
ethereum10
bytecode10
blockchain10
compiler10
smart-contracts10
fuzzing10
rust10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OriginProtocol/oeth.com
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Frontend for oeth.com
Contributions:19 reviews, 60 PRs, 150 pushes in 2 months
frontend
owlprotocol/contracts
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 101 commits, 51 PRs in 5 months
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