previously, on a life in tech:
mahelikaa
solana developer · rust + typescript · allegedly fine
this is the part where i'm supposed to say i'm passionate and results-driven. i'm not going to do that. let's just sink into it.
the days kind of run away from you.
you wake up. you ship a little rust. someone says "gm." a token does a thing. you don't really react. you just drift through it, wobbling slightly, like the day is happening to whoever's standing where you are.
underneath all the noise, though, the work is real:
- › shipping onchain programs in rust + typescript on solana.
- › one of three contributors building opal — an optimistic oracle for natural-language statements, born from a superteam india grant.
- › twice a finalist at the solana india fellowship.
- › currently: rektoff security cohort 5 (125 of 5,000+) and super30 3.0.
[ the résumé nobody asked for ]
things i'm allegedly good at.
results may vary. mostly, lately, they don't. and then sometimes they really do.
[ previously on... ]
seven episodes of slowly
figuring it out.
one of three contributors on an optimistic oracle. anchor programs, integration tests, and adr-0002 — the episode where the switchboard council gets written out.
125 picked from 5,000+. learning how systems fail — on purpose.
an onsite cohort for ~30 selected builders. six months, heads-down, no escape from l.a. (the good kind).
two cohorts, final stage both times. winning or learning — i got very good at one of them.
three months of rust and anchor. the montage episode.
the background thread. still running.
two years of ece. good backstory, wrong genre.
[ the work ]
[ coming soon ]
the part where i actually show you things.
[ the view from halfway down ]
you know, sometimes I feel like I was born with a leak, and any happiness that gets poured into me just drains out.
“it gets easier. every day it gets a little easier. but you gotta do it every day. that's the hard part. but it does get easier.”
[ you made it to the bottom ]
most people skip the intro.
you didn't.
that probably means something. i haven't decided what yet. but let's talk.
the sun's still up there, somewhere. look up. then let's build something good.
“the key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. it's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually you'll be dead.”
made at the bottom of the pool · © 2026 mahelikaa