Who is Agnij Dutta?
Agnij Dutta is a software engineer in Bengaluru, India, who builds payment infrastructure, smart contracts and zero-knowledge systems, with a focus on AI agents that move money safely.
Agnij co-founded Rump Labs, a technical studio for founders, and founded The North Yard, a software holding company that buys and holds small software businesses. Agnij was a founding engineer at Swad, a San Francisco stablecoin neobank, and is a founding engineer at Workwise, a multi-tenant B2B platform that peaked at 300K requests a minute.
Agnij's open-source work includes Capline, on-chain spend limits for AI agents published on npm, and FLIP, funded by a Flare Foundation grant. Agnij won a bounty at ETHGlobal New Delhi and placed first of 100+ teams at the Team1 Incubator in Kolkata, and studies Data Science at IIT Madras.
- Known for
- Payment infrastructure, smart contracts, ZK, AI agent spend limits
- Based in
- Bengaluru, India (from Kolkata)
- Companies
- Rump Labs (co-founder), The North Yard (founder)
- Roles
- Founding engineer at Swad and Workwise
- Education
- IIT Madras, Data Science, graduating 2028
- Online as
- agnij-dutta on GitHub, @0xholmesdev on X, 0xholmes on npm
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- Who is Agnij Dutta?
- Agnij Dutta is a software engineer in Bengaluru, India, who builds payment infrastructure, smart contracts and zero-knowledge systems, with a focus on AI agents that move money safely. Agnij co-founded Rump Labs and founded The North Yard.
- What does Agnij Dutta work on?
- Stablecoin payment rails, Solidity, Anchor and Soroban smart contracts, zero-knowledge circuits in Circom and Noir, and spending controls for AI agents with wallets, such as Capline.
- What is Rump Labs?
- Rump Labs is a technical studio for founders, co-founded by Agnij Dutta: architecture reads, first working versions and delivery. Freelance and contract work runs through it.
- What is The North Yard?
- The North Yard is a software holding company founded by Agnij Dutta with Dhruvin Deshpande. It buys, operates and holds small software businesses with recurring revenue.
- Where did Agnij Dutta work?
- Agnij was a founding engineer at Swad, a San Francisco stablecoin neobank, where Agnij owned every production release, and is a founding engineer at Workwise, a B2B platform measured at 300K requests a minute for 40,000+ users. Agnij is also a developer advocate at HackQuest.
- Where does Agnij Dutta study?
- IIT Madras, Data Science, graduating in 2028.
- How do I contact Agnij Dutta?
- Email agnijdutta413@gmail.com, book a 30-minute call at agnij.me, or find Agnij as @0xholmesdev on X and agnij-dutta on GitHub and LinkedIn.