# Rohit Malekar
### Architecting data tools, funding systems, and crypto-native infrastructure for public goods
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<h2>👤 About</h2>
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<li>20 years in strategy, operations, product, and analytics</li>
<li>Pivoted from Big 4 consulting → web3 public goods</li>
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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>
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Specializing in: designing funding mechanisms, building data tools, modeling public goods dynamics, and architecting crypto-native solutions to coordination problems.
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## 🧠 Now
- **📊 Grant Analytics** — Designing metrics and visualizations for cohort performance
- **🧮 Retroactive Grants** — Building better funding signals from developer activity
- **🔍 AI x Climate Funding** — Multi-agent assistants for measurable bounty design
- **🪴 Capital Rails for Climate Action** — Verifiable financial plumbing for grassroots climate work
## 🛠️ Featured Work
- **[OSS Funding Analysis](https://docs.opensource.observer/blog/octant-2024-grant-analytics)** → Clustered insights from Octant funded projects
- **[Merit-based OSS funding](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg23-how-were-powering-retroactive-funding-metrics-that-matter/20216)** → Data-driven framework to evaluate OSS projects
- **[AI assistant for climate bounties](https://paragraph.xyz/@atlantisp2p/alfredv01)** → Simplifying bounty creation for measurable impact.
- **[Data-driven Quadratic Funding](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/data-driven-decision-making-in-quadratic-funding/19752)** → Unifying context for decentralized funding
- **[[Predicting Public Goods Funding Using Reward Distribution Curves - An Exploratory Approach|Predicting Funding Using Reward Distribution Curves]]** → Revealing patters in public goods funding
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## ✍️ Select Essays
- **[Why Web 3.0 Communities is a Big Deal?](https://uxdesign.cc/why-web-3-0-communities-are-a-big-deal-600c8e5013c3)** (UX Collective)
- **[The Decentralized Web and the Rise of Transparency-First Institutions](https://hackernoon.com/the-decentralized-internet-and-redistribution-of-power)** (HackerNoon)
- **[The Case for Grant Programs](https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/the-case-for-grant-programs-how-to-incentivise-ecosystem-growth-by-funding-innovation)** (Gitcoin Blog)
- **[Inside Open Collective's Effort to Become Decentralized for Global Public Good](https://hackernoon.com/inside-open-collectives-effort-to-become-decentralized-for-global-public-good)** (HackerNoon)
- **[Grants for Public Good: A Roadmap for Resilient Democratic Funding](https://gitcoin.mirror.xyz/YoSf01Pjm7ZDflCrLypbWxN0B0Fv2bYCVGLSOye8xjE)** (Gitcoin Blog)
## ✨ 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])**
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