About Me

I'm Kritarth Agrawal. I build privacy infrastructure that actually ships.

I co-founded Airchains and built zkFHE execution frameworks—systems that compute on encrypted data and generate zero-knowledge proofs. Most people talk about privacy-preserving computation. I optimized proof generation from 30+ seconds to under 8 seconds and made it work in production.

Before that, I built government platforms during COVID that handled 500,000+ approval requests. When the system went down, ambulances couldn't move. I learned what production-grade means when downtime = lives lost.

I started coding at 16, freelancing for local businesses in India. No bootcamps, no safety net—just free online resources and paying clients. Eight years later, I'm still obsessed with the same question: how do you make complex technology invisible?

What I'm Building Now

I'm working on making financial privacy accessible through AI agents. Not "privacy for technical elites who understand zkSNARKs"—privacy that works by default, invisibly, for everyone.

Here's what I've learned: cryptography works. We can make transactions unlinkable using stealth addresses. We can prove correctness without revealing data using zero-knowledge proofs. The technology isn't the bottleneck.

Distribution is the bottleneck. Trust is the bottleneck. UX is the bottleneck.

That's where AI agents come in. "Send $500 to Mom" feels familiar. "Send to 0x7a3f...4d2c" feels terrifying. Natural language interfaces might be the unlock that makes privacy tech accessible to the 99% of people who don't care about decentralization or cryptography—they just want their financial transactions to be private.

I'm betting that privacy becomes default when it's invisible. When it requires zero technical knowledge. When it just works.

Philosophy

I believe the best technology is invisible. You don't think about TCP/IP when you browse the web. You don't think about public-key cryptography when you use HTTPS. You shouldn't have to think about zkSNARKs to have financial privacy.

I believe privacy should be the default, not an opt-in feature. Surveillance should be the exception that requires justification, not the baseline we've accepted.

I believe building in public beats building in stealth. Feedback loops matter more than perfect launches. Shipping imperfect products that real people use beats perfecting products that never launch.

Beyond Work

When I'm not debugging proof systems or optimizing circuits, I'm probably playing drums (badly), collecting sneakers (obsessively), or yelling at my code (therapeutically).

I live in Delhi, work 70-hour weeks, and still manage to maintain the world's most inconsistent exercise routine. I'm trying to get better at taking breaks without feeling guilty about not working. It's a work in progress.

Let's Connect

I'm always interested in talking with people building privacy infrastructure, working on AI agents, or thinking about how to make complex technology accessible.

Email: admin@kritarthagrawal.com Twitter: @KritarthAgrawal GitHub: @kritarth1107