Gaurav Dhalla

Engineering @ Circle | CS @IIT Indore | Ex-founding engg @ Sentra | Ex-Arcesium | Tinkering with AI & Stablecoins

New Delhi, Delhi, India

About

I’m a builder at heart who loves solving complex infrastructure puzzles. Currently, I’m the Lead Founding Engineer at Sentra, where I’m building the hybrid financial rails that bridge the gap between crypto and the real world (fiat). I love the chaos and creativity of 0-to-1 product building, designed the technical architecture for orchestration APIs, unifying multiple providers. Before Sentra, I cut my teeth on high-scale systems: - At Leap Wallet, I migrated routing engines to Golang to hit <250ms latency for DeFi trading. - At Arcesium, I architected data pipelines handling TBs of data processing for major US banks. Also led AI Initiatives for in-house products. When I’m not shipping production code, I’m usually tinkering with AI Agents. I’ve built autonomous trading bots (including "Sigma," which trades based on social sentiment) and have been lucky enough to win over 6 Web3 hackathons. Always happy to chat about Distributed Systems, AI, or the future of Payments!

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Circle
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Founding Engineer at Sentra
    May 2025 - Mar 2026 · 11 mos

  • Arcesium (Gurugram, Haryana, India)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 · 9 mos

    • Software Engineer
      Jul 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Leap Wallet (10 mos)
    • Contract Software Engineer
      Jul 2022 - Nov 2022 · 5 mos

    • Software Engineer
      Feb 2022 - Jun 2022 · 5 mos

  • Convener, Student Senate at Students'​ Gymkhana IIT Indore
    Sep 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr