Technical Lead (Crypto Forensics) @ C3iHub, IIT Kanpur | Founder & CEO @ BlockStash
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
I build tools that follow the money on the blockchain. As the founder of BlockStash Intelligence — a Blockchain security startup incubated at FIRST, IIT Kanpur — and Technical Lead (Crypto Forensics) at C3iHub, I develop real-time cryptocurrency investigation & surveillance solutions used by law enforcement agencies across India.
- 🔭 Currently leading Crypto Forensics at C3iHub, IIT Kanpur
- 🚀 Building BlockStash Intelligence — real-time crypto crime investigation & forensics
- 🤝 Collaborated with FIU-India, Intelligence Bureau, Income Tax, Enforcement Directorate, NIA, I4C, CID, West Bengal Police, Telangana State Police & National Police Academy
- 📄 Published IEEE research on malicious Bitcoin address identification & address clustering
- 🎓 MTech, Computer Science from IIT Kanpur
| Role | Organization | Duration |
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| Technical Lead (Crypto Forensics) | C3iHub, IIT Kanpur | Jan 2025 – Present |
| Senior Project Executive Engineer | C3iHub, IIT Kanpur | Feb 2024 – Jan 2025 |
| Founder & CEO | BlockStash Intelligence | Oct 2022 – Present |
| Sr. Project Executive Engineer | IIT Kanpur | Sep 2021 – Feb 2024 |
| Sr. Student Research Associate | National Blockchain Project, IIT Kanpur | Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 |
| Teaching Assistant | IIT Kanpur | Jul 2019 – Jan 2021 |
| Founder | CUBERSINDIA | Sep 2017 – Jun 2019 |
| Software Intern | Aditya Birla Group (Idea Cellular) | Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 |
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Towards Malicious Address Identification in Bitcoin D. Chaudhari, R. Agarwal, and S. K. Shukla — IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 425–432. DOI: 10.1109/Blockchain53845.2021.00066
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Blockstash Intelligence: Real-time Crypto Crime Investigation and Forensics Tool
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Optimizing Bitcoin Address Clustering and Uncovering New Insights
| Degree | Institution | Year |
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| MTech, Computer Science Engineering | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | 2019 – 2021 |
| BTech, Computer Science | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University | 2014 – 2018 |
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- Certified in C++
- Programming in C++
- Python Programming
- Programming in C
Empowering law enforcement & financial institutions to ensure digital financial integrity.


