I help funders and open source ecosystems see where capital flows, why, and what it produces — then I build the tools to act on it.
I've co-led grants rounds at Gitcoin, built analytics used in live funding decisions across the Ethereum ecosystem, and contributed governance research to ENS DAO through Metagov. Before this, I spent twenty years across consulting, product, and research, including strategy and analytics roles at Deloitte and Medallia.
Today, I focus on: • Designing and operating funding mechanisms and grant programs • Building analytics dashboards and decision-support tools that funders act on • Ecosystem research, retrospectives, and metrics frameworks • Supporting open-source, climate, and digital public infrastructure initiatives
Recent collaborations: Gitcoin · Metagov · Open Source Observer · Scroll
- ENS DAO Governance Research Platform — Analytics for Metagov's independent governance retrospective of ENS DAO; a reproducible data stack (Dagster + dbt + DuckDB) across 7 onchain and forum data sources, cited in active decisions over a $400M+ treasury • Case Study • Dashboard • Repo
- GG24 Interop Standards, Infrastructure & Analytics Round — Co-designed and operated Ethereum's first interop-focused grants domain; a $100K+ QF round from domain thesis to public retrospective • Case Study • Domain Design • Retrospective
- Mapping Ecosystem Problems to Grants Funding — Demonstrated that QF reliably funds visible, legible work but structurally underfunds ecosystem-critical infrastructure — a finding that informs how domain operators design future rounds • Analysis • Dashboard
- Scroll Delegate Accelerator: Metrics Module — Designed and delivered a data-driven governance curriculum to 30 delegate candidates evaluating proposals with onchain metrics • Curriculum
- Being Right Isn't Enough - Lessons for Ethereum from a 90s OS War (Feb 2026)
- Beyond Stages - A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Evaluating L2s (Feb 2026)
- The Biggest Risk With AI Isn't Job Loss. It's Loss of Agency (Feb 2026)
- The Infrastructure for Insight - Cultivating Personal Judgement in the Age of Generation (Jan 2026)
- Mapping Problems to Capital: Insights from Gitcoin Grants 24 (Dec 2025)
More at rohitmalekar.in — essays and an atomic notes library, grown in public.
Open to short-term consulting, fractional roles, and project-based collaborations: grant program design, ecosystem analytics, funding systems, and advisory for public-interest technology.
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