const sweta = {
  name: "Sweta Karar",
  role: [
    "Fullstack Engineer",
    "Blockchain Developer",
    "Cryptography Researcher"
  ],

  building: [
    "Blockchain infrastructure",
    "Privacy-preserving payment systems",
    "Developer tooling"
  ],

  interests: [
    "Frontend Engineering",
    "Blockchain Protocols",
    "Zero-Knowledge Proofs",
    "Applied Cryptography",
    "Privacy"
  ],

  currentlyLearning: [
    "Cryptography",
    "ZK-SNARKs",
    "Rust",
    "Core Blockchain Architecture"
  ],

  philosophy: "Understand the system. Then build it better."
};

Privacy-preserving payment infrastructure on Stellar.

Building private payment infrastructure with:

• Confidential payment flows
• Zero-knowledge proofs
• Privacy pools
• Merkle trees
• Spend & viewing keys
• Merchant infrastructure
• Relayer-based transactions
• Stellar assets
• USDC payment infrastructure

Exploring how blockchain payments can become more private without sacrificing usability and practical compliance requirements.

Yield infrastructure built around Uniswap v4 hooks.

Exploring programmable DeFi primitives, yield markets and composable liquidity infrastructure.

Security-focused tooling for blockchain systems.

Exploring automated verification, cryptographic guarantees and security-oriented developer infrastructure.

Blockchain and quantitative infrastructure experiments spanning trading systems, data pipelines and on-chain applications.

• Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems
• Groth16 & SNARK architecture
• Privacy-preserving payments
• Confidential transactions
• Stellar protocol architecture
• Merkle trees & commitment schemes
• Selective disclosure
• Blockchain security
• Cryptographic primitives
• Protocol-level privacy tradeoffs

• 🏆 17x hackathon wins and finalist positions
• 🌐 Built and shipped production-grade web and blockchain applications
• 👩‍💻 Led developer communities and technical teams
• 🔬 Exploring blockchain privacy through research and experimentation
• 🌍 Building at the intersection of open-source technology and decentralized infrastructure

[ SYSTEM STATUS ]

Frontend Engineering       ████████████████████  ACTIVE
Blockchain Infrastructure  ███████████████████░  ACTIVE
Cryptography               ████████████████░░░░  LEARNING
Zero Knowledge             ██████████████░░░░░░  DEEP DIVING
Rust                       ███████████░░░░░░░░░  EXPLORING

STATUS: BUILDING

I like understanding why systems work, not just how to use them.

My current rabbit holes:

cryptography
      ↓
zero knowledge
      ↓
blockchain protocols
      ↓
privacy
      ↓
financial infrastructure

The long-term goal:

Build systems that are technically interesting, useful in the real world, and hard to break.

⚡ BUILD • BREAK • LEARN • REPEAT ⚡

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