S11 E19: Madhavan "Maddy" Malonan, Reclaim Protocol
30 September 2025

S11 E19: Madhavan "Maddy" Malonan, Reclaim Protocol

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

About

Madhavan "Maddy" Malonan has always been in - and around - technology, and fell in love with building things early on. He got a video game console early on, and found it a little boring. BUT, when his Dad got a computer and he played Age of Empires, he got excited about all the possibilities, trying to tinker with building things that mimicked these computer games. Even these days, he writes a lot of code, building side projects with Claude Code. When he's not coding, he's playing sports, primarily tennis.

Maddy and his team identified that verification of age, credentials, employment history, etc. was a big, big problem. So much so, that it was difficult to do so in a tamper proof, zero knowledge proof manner. They set out to create a solution - and protocol - to solve this problem.

This is the creation story of Reclaim Protocol.

Sponsors

    Full ScalePaddle.comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearch

Links

    https://reclaimprotocol.org/https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhavanmalolan/




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