Vaibhav Maheshwari Serial founder and engineer. I started as an early employee at GigIndia (acquired by PhonePe), freelanced on web3 infrastructure (Cairo, Solidity, on-chain backends), then founded Kleo Network and bootstrapped it to 120,000 extension installs, 5,000 Discord members, and 100K organic followers on X. Kleo was acquired by a Series A startup. Along the way it picked up roughly $80K in grants and competition prizes, plus a place in Antler India and Draper University's Astro Residency. Now building Centaur Video in San Francisco, which helps CXOs and founders build a founder-led brand through video without having to record themselves. Winner at the Terac Hackathon SF and finalist at the Antler Global Hackathon. I like small, hungry teams and shipping fast.
Founder
Helping CXOs and founders build a founder-led brand through video, without recording themselves. Winner at Terac Hackathon SF ($2,500). Finalist at Antler Global Hackathon (SF).
Founder
Bootstrapped to 120K extension installs, $40K revenue from user-contributed data, $80K in grants and prizes, 100K X followers, 5K Discord members. Integrated VANA, Camp Network and Polygon. Hired 5 people. Acquired by a Series A startup.
Residency
Residency on fitness, lifestyle and building, exploring Balaji Srinivasan's vision of pop-up cities and the Network State.
Residency
Entrepreneur
Residency
Selected for the 3-month Antler India residency, a cofounder-matching program for entrepreneurs. Kleo Network came out of it.
Freelance Software Developer
Matchbox DAO: merkle tree in Cairo for task queues. Zesty: on-chain event listener backend, database and deployment. Ricochet Exchange: Solidity tests, smart contract and frontend work.
Full Stack Developer
Early employee; acquired by PhonePe. Built Lambda functions for S3 at scale, ReactJS and Django gig workflows, and an automated quality check that flags fraudulent gig submissions.
Intern
Built a prototype chatbot that answered customer queries and handled login, remittance and end-to-end support.
Student Editor, Times NIE
Student editor for Times NIE, an 8-page national daily for students. Published several articles under editor Ragini Bharadwaj.
Masters, Mathematics
