Software engineer — Andamio

Backend engineer, occasional physicist. I build the tooling that sits between hard problems and working software.

Core developer at Andamio, shipping protocol infrastructure end to end. Lately, branching into quantum computing research — most recently a merged contribution to Mitiq.

Selected work

Andamioscan Go · UTxORPC · HTMX · 2024 —

The Andamio protocol's block explorer. Protocol events were invisible without reading raw chain data, so I built a Go indexer over UTxORPC for low-latency access, with an HTMX frontend that keeps the JavaScript budget near zero.

Notableno client framework at all: server-rendered fragments over the wire.

Andamio SDK TypeScript · MeshJS · 2023 —

The typed integration surface for Andamio: transaction building, state queries, and wallet flows — so teams ship on the protocol without touching raw UTxO logic. I'm the maintainer.

NotableAPI designed around what integrators asked for, not what the protocol exposes.

Clifford Data Regression tutorial, Mitiq Python · Cirq · Clifft · 2026

A worked example of Clifford Data Regression — a quantum error-mitigation technique — for Mitiq, the field's reference error-mitigation library. Uses unitaryfoundation's Clifft near-Clifford simulator to generate CDR's training data on a circuit built directly in a Clifford + Rz gateset.

Notablereviewed and merged by three maintainers, including Clifft's own author.

Contributions across Andamio, Gimbalabs, and Cardano ecosystem repos.

Experience

AndamioCore Developer

Protocol delivery end to end: backend architecture, product, and developer relations.

2023 —
GimbalabsDeveloper Relations

Open-source Cardano education and developer community.

2022 —
Cardano GovernanceDRep

Active delegated representative; constitutional workshop participant (Bangalore, 2024).

2024 —

Also — Buidler Fest #2, a gathering of dedicated Cardano builders.

Education

NISERMSc Physics, minor in Computer Science
2018 — 23

Writing

From zero to a merged Mitiq PR in two weeks2026

Open to research collaborations and interesting infrastructure problems.
Write to nelson@andamio.io

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