I’m a founder at heart and a product-first engineer. I live for zero-to-one: turning messy ideas into systems users actually touch. Startups are my natural habitat—fast loops, high ownership, shipped results.

• 🦀 Rust + backend systems: indexers, MPC flows, custom services; Solana pipelines (e.g. Yellowstone Geyser gRPC)
• Infra: Scaling workloads across AWS, GCP, and Azure (CI/CD, networking, IAM, orchestration, observability).
• Web2: TypeScript/React with a focus on clean, scalable interfaces.
• 🧭 Leadership: Tech Lead @ Wanderlust (Tokyo) — led distributed teams; delivered AI/ML-backed systems for enterprise at scale.
• 🎓 Teaching: Guest Lecturer @ NMIMS (Mumbai) — Teaching a Semester course on "Introduction to Modern App Development" to 3rd-year engg undergrads.

Portfolio (lightly outdated): https://reubence.com
Based in Mumbai, India • DM on X: @reubence_

• 🎙️ 100xDevs podcast (with Harkirat): https://youtu.be/AcZvdcvx1Ro?si=0gJslT4DZw4WlxxE
• 🧪 Developer Students Club by Google @ Atharva College of Engineering — Talk/Workshop teaching hands-on Data Science skills (EDA, viz, ML training, metrics, Pandas)