Nitin Yadav

Contributed 14 merged PRs to Samui Wallet — an open-source developer-focused Solana wallet and toolbox for builders. Shipped bug fixes and features across settings, onboarding, portfolio, and UI modules including form validation with react-hook-form/zod, type-safe routing, and utility functions. Project won the $10,000 Solana Foundation Public Goods Award (Colosseum, Dec 2025) — recognising its impact as open-source infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem.

Open Source Contributor at Samui Wallet (2025-11 – 2026-01)

• Contributed 14 merged PRs to Samui Wallet — an open-source developer-focused Solana wallet and toolbox for builders.
• Shipped bug fixes and features across settings, onboarding, portfolio, and UI modules including form validation with react-hook-form/zod, type-safe routing, and utility functions.
• Project won the $10,000 Solana Foundation Public Goods Award (Colosseum, Dec 2025) — recognising its impact as open-source infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem.

Open Source Contributor at Gill SDK (2025-09 – 2026-10)

• Built Gillsdk/testing package from scratch — local validator orchestration, SPL token fixtures, and transaction assertion helpers for Solana program testing.
• Improved developer experience for Solana testing infrastructure by designing reusable matchers like expectTxToSucceed and expectTxToFailWith.
• Gained deep hands-on knowledge of Solana runtime internals, CPI, compute units, and transaction-level debugging through real SDK contribution.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering – Panimalar Institute of Technology (2019 – 2023)