# Rohit Malekar ### Architecting data tools, funding systems, and crypto-native infrastructure for public goods **[[Portfolio|📂 View Portfolio]] · [[Writings|✍️ Read My Essays]] · 📄 [[About|Resume]]** <div style="display: flex; align-items: center;"> <img src="./x_Attachments/profile.jpg" alt="My image" style="width: 150px; margin-right: 20px;"> <!-- About Text --> <div> <h2>👤 About</h2> <ul> <li>20 years in strategy, operations, product, and analytics</li> <li>Pivoted from Big 4 consulting → web3 public goods</li> <li> Recent contributions at: <a href="https://www.gitcoin.co/" target="_blank">Gitcoin</a>, <a href="https://www.opensource.observer/" target="_blank">Open Source Observer</a>, <a href="https://www.atlantisp2p.com/" target="_blank">Atlantis</a> </li> <li> Specializing in: designing funding mechanisms, building data tools, modeling public goods dynamics, and architecting crypto-native solutions to coordination problems. </li> </ul> </div> </div> ## 🧠 Now - **📊 Grant Analytics** — Designing metrics and interactive visualizations for data-driven retrospectives - **🧮 Funding Ethereum Interoperability** — Domain definition, design, and funding for Gitcoin 3.0 - **🪴 Capital Rails for Climate Action** — Verifiable financial plumbing for grassroots climate work ## 🛠️ Recent Work - **GG24 Domain Design** — Co-led Ethereum Interop Standards, Infra, and Analytics Quadratic Funding Round • [Article](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/domain-announcement-interop-standards-infrastructure-analytics/24631) - **Scroll Delegate Accelerator: Metrics Module (2025)** — Developed curriculum on data-driven governance for delegate decision-making • [Curriculum](https://sovs.notion.site/Scroll-Delegate-Accelerator-Week-6-217000c0d59080c49639c0719b718ca4) - **Grant Summit Program (2025)** - Data Driven Retrospective Framework for Grant Managers • [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nH4aWmmIeuCB9WOiSAeaMR8C7Q4-UeeejV4N6xvn9NQ/edit?usp=sharing) [[Portfolio| View Full Portfolio →]] ## ✍️ Recent Essays - [[You Can’t Outrun a Misaligned Life]] (Nov 2025) - [[Why 99% of the Self-Help Industry Is Slop - Gust Against Gravity]] (Oct 2025) - [[GG24 Sensemaking - Open Data Standards, Infrastructure & Analytics for Ethereum]] (Aug 2025) [[Writings|View All Writings → ]] ## ✨ Off the Track I believe slow miles and metaphors both help in understanding complexity — one through the body, the other through the heart. When I’m not building data tools or navigating funding labyrinths, I’m usually: - 🛠 Fixing a puncture mid-ride on **[[Cycling|roads across Bangalore]]** - **✍️ [Scribbling poetry](https://breathefeellove.in/)** that often feels like debugging emotions ## Let’s Collaborate Open for short-term consulting, grant program design, data tooling, or just riffing on impact systems. If you're building in public goods, coordination, or climate tech, I’d love to hear from you. → **[📬 Email me](mailto:[email protected])** **→ [🐦 Twitter](https://twitter.com/rohitmalekar) | [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/rohitmalekar.eth) | [🔗 LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitmalekar/) | [💻 GitHub](https://github.com/rohitmalekar)**