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Mrigesh Thakur
Bangalore, India · mrigeshthakur11@gmail.com · github.com/Legend101Zz · linkedin · @mrigesh_thakur
Software engineer working on large event-driven systems at Walmart Global Tech, open-source maintainer, founder and builder. Three fellowships: Meta XR Open Source 2023, Summer of Bitcoin 2024, and Google Summer of Code 2025 with INCF. $26,500 in hackathon prizes, $11,000 in fellowship stipends, and nine companies attempted — six of them closed, which is where most of the learning came from.
Experience
Walmart Global Tech — Software Engineer IIAug 2025 – present
- Build Fixit LMD, the incident platform for last-mile delivery: Java and Spring Boot on event sourcing and CQRS, over Kafka and Cosmos DB.
- Designed an AI ticket-summary feature on an MCP-based agentic system.
- Shipped the ACH Reset integration with the DrEAM remittance engine.
Walmart — Data Science InternMay – Aug 2024
- Delivery-date prediction for Walmart Mexico with LightGBM and a custom asymmetric loss, since arriving late costs a customer more than arriving early. 5M+ users.
- Entered through Walmart Sparkathon 2023, 1st of 10,000+ teams. Received a pre-placement offer.
Fanisko — XR Developer, Meta XR Open Source FellowMay 2023 – Jan 2024
- Built an AR cricket wagon wheel in three.js and Zappar WebAR; it ran inside the ICC app at the 2023 Men's Cricket World Cup for 4M+ fans.
- Fanisko won ICC × Nium's "Next In" global hackathon, 9,550+ teams.
Open source
Caravan (Unchained) — maintainer, bitcoin multisig2024 – 2026
- Built the fee-bumping package (RBF / CPFP). 31 merged PRs, #2 human contributor. Entered via Summer of Bitcoin; project now in maintenance mode.
Brian2 (INCF) — Google Summer of Code 2025, then contributor2025 – present
- Moved runtime code generation from Cython to cppyy so neural models compile straight to C++. 7 merged PRs; #1769 in review (+5,740 lines).
Caravan-X — reproducible bitcoin regtest environments2025
- CLI over regtest with PSBT support, published on npm; 900+ downloads.
Combraton — a control plane for agentic software work2026 – present
- Protocol v0.1.0 released Sep 2026. PIO runs and recovers the work; CBR remembers it with evidence.
Fellowships: Meta XR Open Source 2023 ($5,000) · Summer of Bitcoin 2024 ($3,000, paid in bitcoin) · Google Summer of Code 2025 ($3,000).
Companies and projects
- KnowScroll (2025 – present) — a feed that teaches instead of drains; reels composed by an LLM from cited sources. First version won $7,500 at Sonic's DeFAI hackathon.
- Rodhak (2023) — founder. Live GPS tracking for Himachal Pradesh government buses; still online at dndrodhak.in.
- Appy (2023) — robotic apple harvester with image-based grading. $5,000 HP CM-Startup grant; Best Research Paper, ABHIGYA 2023.
- Deauth (2024) — fashion with fractional ownership on Cosmos. $2,000 in sales, 250K+ views on the drop, two hackathon wins.
- Agent-X OS (2026) — an agent OS for small-business work, with a kernel that verifies every effect before it commits. Open-sourced.
- Gradient (2026) — conversion teardowns for online stores, with variants measured against a permanent holdback.
- ANHER (2026 – present) — made-to-measure curtain business run with a friend; Next.js, Express, Postgres, Razorpay. Live at anher.in.
- PaperTree, PanelSummary, pi-orchestra, Algame (PyPI), hire-X, HonBil, TaskBust, NITH-Portal (digital outpasses for 4,000+ students).
Awards
- $26,500 in hackathon prizes: Euclid Aurora 2024 ($10,000) · Sonic DeFAI 2025 ($7,500) · Archway 2024 ($5,000) · Andromeda 2024 ($2,000) · Findoc Algo-Ninja 2023, runner-up ($2,000).
- Walmart Sparkathon 2023 — 1st of 10,000+ teams. EY Techathon semi-finalist; top 10 at Make4thon, Hack-o-wasp 4.0 and Electrothon 5.0.
Skills
LanguagesTypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, Dart, SQL
BackendSpring Boot, Node, Kafka, event sourcing + CQRS, Cosmos DB, Postgres, MongoDB
ML / researchLightGBM, PyTorch, Brian2, cppyy, Cython, NumPy
Bitcoinmultisig, PSBT, RBF / CPFP, regtest
AgentsMCP, orchestration, evaluation harnesses, prompt tooling
FrontendReact, Next.js, Flutter, WebGL, three.js
Education
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur — B.Tech, Mathematics and Scientific Computing2021 – 2025
- GPA 9.18.
Last updated 20 September 2026.