$150M+
onchain vaults managed at Tulipa
$2B
TVL protocol strategy experience
$1B+
active liquidity across Ethereum and 9 L2s
$2M+
grant rewards secured and deployed
Current focus
Institutional DeFi
Stablecoin rails
Vault architecture
Capital allocation
On-chain liquidity
Modular finance
Ethereum & L2s
Selected work
Designed delta-neutral vault architecture managing $150M+ across multichain ecosystems.
Helped launch liquidity programs and GTM strategies across 9 Layer 2 networks.
Structured ecosystem proposals and incentive programs securing $2M+ in grants.
Scaled integrations with 50+ DeFi protocols across DEXes, lending, yield, and leverage markets.
Managed treasury and allocation strategy across a $25M portfolio spanning 6 blockchains.
Published finance research on herding in Asian financial markets and price-volume strategy.
Track record across
Tulipa Capital
KelpDAO
Stader Labs
Track record
Chief Vault Strategist
Tulipa Capital
$150M+ onchain managed
July 2025 — Present
Vault curation · Liquidity management · Yield discovery
Core member of the DeFi vaults curation team, managing risk-mitigated delta-neutral vault strategies across multichain ecosystems.
Curates vault strategies across DEX liquidity provisioning, leveraged positions, lending markets, and cross-asset carry yields.
Managed key vaults including cbBTC TAC, Avax USDC & BTC.b, and cbBTC vault strategies with notable ATH TVL.
Co-authored proposals and factsheets for DAOs, ecosystems, and asset issuers while leading institutional and protocol relationships.
Ecosystem Lead — DeFi
KelpDAO
$1B+ active liquidity
October 2023 — May 2025
Partnerships · Growth · Research
Led DeFi strategy for KelpDAO, a liquid restaking protocol with $2B TVL across Ethereum and Layer 2 networks.
Scaled integrations with 50+ DeFi protocols across DEXes, lending, yield optimizers, leverage protocols, and more.
Planned GTM strategies for launches across 9 L2s, helping drive over $100M TVL on Layer 2 networks.
Secured and oversaw $2M+ in grant rewards across Arbitrum, Optimism, and zkSync initiatives.
Founder’s Office Analyst
Stader Labs
$25M treasury portfolio
October 2022 — October 2023
Analytics · Research · Finance
Worked across treasury management, investment strategy, investor relations, and finance operations for a multi-chain staking business.
Led treasury management and investment strategies across 6 blockchains, optimizing allocation and risk management.
Collaborated with DeFi and business teams to increase liquidity pool yield by 10% on average and reduce expenses by 14%.
Partnered with leadership to cut costs by 30% while supporting a net-positive P&L through staking revenue and treasury yield.
Investment themes
Digital asset infrastructure
Market structure, custody-adjacent workflows, asset issuance, and infrastructure that lets capital move with fewer frictions.
Vault systems
Risk-aware yield products, delta-neutral strategies, collateral design, and institutional-grade vault architecture.
Stablecoins & liquidity
Stablecoin rails, liquidity depth, incentive design, and the mechanisms that make on-chain markets sustainable.
DeFi credit & treasuries
Treasury deployment, credit primitives, yield markets, and capital allocation frameworks for DAOs and protocols.
Liquid staking & restaking
Yield-bearing collateral, validator economics, LST/LRT integrations, and capital efficiency after EigenLayer.
Modular finance
Cross-chain ecosystems, Layer 2 markets, new financial primitives, and the connective tissue between protocols.
Writing
Why vault design matters for institutional capital
A note on how vault architecture, risk surfaces, transparency, and allocator trust shape the next stage of on-chain capital formation.
The next evolution of on-chain treasuries
How DAOs and protocols can move from passive treasury holding to systematic allocation, liquidity planning, and risk-aware yield.
What makes sustainable liquidity?
A framework for distinguishing mercenary incentives from durable market depth across DEXes, L2s, and vault-led ecosystems.
Stablecoins as financial infrastructure
Why stablecoins are evolving from a crypto-native unit of account into settlement infrastructure for programmable financial markets.
Based in India, working remotely across crypto-native teams, protocols, DAOs, and institutional partners.