01Winner · ETHGlobal New York
Tidewave
2025An intent solver that routes cross-chain swaps through the cheapest path in under a second.
- Rust
- Solidity
- TypeScript
Portfolio — 2026Shipping at Apple
Engineer
Software Engineer at Apple
Open source
Committer, Apache Iggy
Hackathons
13× winner · $65K+
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(01) AboutAtharva Lade
I write software at Apple, commit code to Apache Iggy, and build things that win — thirteen hackathons across three continents. I care about systems that are fast, honest and quietly magical.
Day job
Apple
Open source
Apache Iggy
Hackathon wins
13
Prize money
$65K+
Where mycycles go
- 01
Apple
Software Engineer
Building software used by more people than I can picture. The details stay in Cupertino; the craft shows up everywhere else.
Now - 02
Apache Iggy
Committer
Hyper-efficient, persistent message streaming written in Rust — millions of messages a second over QUIC, TCP and HTTP. I help keep it fast.
Now - 03
Hackathons
13× Winner
Six cities, three continents, $65K+ in prizes. Thirty-six hour sprints are where I learn the fastest.
2023 — Now
13
Hackathon wins
$65K+
In prize money
6
Cities
3
Continents
RustSwiftTypeScriptDistributed SystemsSolidityMovePythonLLM AgentsGoWebGL
RustSwiftTypeScriptDistributed SystemsSolidityMovePythonLLM AgentsGoWebGL
13 hackathon wins around the world: Denver, Toronto, New York, Buenos Aires, Taipei, Seoul
(03) Hackathons01 / 06
Americas — USA
DenverTorontoNew YorkBuenos AiresTaipeiSeoul
39.74° N · 104.99° W
- 01Encode DeFi
- 02ETHDenver
- 03Super Agent
- 04Async House
(04) Selected work
ThingsI've built
Prize winners, side projects and open source. Keep scrolling to fly through them.
021st Place · Build the Future MCP
Halo
2025An MCP server that gives AI agents a wallet, a budget and the good sense to ask first.
- TypeScript
- MCP
- LLMs
03Open Source · Apache Iggy
Driftnet
2025Sub-millisecond event streaming for on-chain indexers, built on Apache Iggy.
- Rust
- Iggy
- QUIC
04Winner · BUIDL AI Seoul
Lumen
2024On-device vision that explains what is in front of you — privately, in real time.
- Swift
- Core ML
- Vision
05Winner · Sui-mming Seoul
Splitline
2024Group payments that settle the moment the bill lands, written in Move on Sui.
- Move
- Sui
- React
06Winner · ETHGlobal Taipei
Atlas
2024A zero-knowledge proof-of-location protocol for real-world assets.
- Circom
- Solidity
- Next.js
Selected work01 / 06
Awards &honors
13 wins · $65K+ in prizes
North America, South America, Asia
- 2025ETHGlobal New YorkFinalistNew York
- 2025Build the Future MCP1st PlaceNew York
- 2025BUIDL AI SeoulGrand PrizeSeoul
- 2025Sui-mming Seoul1st PlaceSeoul
- 2025ETHGlobal TaipeiSponsor PrizeTaipei
- 2025Consensus TorontoTrack WinnerToronto
- 2025ETHDenverBounty WinnerDenver
- 2024ETHGlobal Buenos AiresSponsor PrizeBuenos Aires
- 2025Apache Software FoundationCommitter, Apache IggyOpen source