CoinDCX

CoinDCX didn't come easy. Nothing worth having ever did.

The campus recruitment process passed me over. A familiar sting — but one I had learned not to accept as final. I had done enough by then to know that institutional processes miss people. The question is whether you accept the miss or route around it.

I applied directly. Got the same rejection. So I messaged the founder.

Not a desperate message — a considered one. I articulated clearly what I had built, what I understood about fintech, and why I believed I could contribute. It was a risk. It could have been ignored, or worse, could have seemed presumptuous.

It wasn't ignored.

I landed the internship. I worked harder than I ever had — because I knew I had gotten an opportunity that wasn't supposed to happen, and I was not going to waste it. I converted the internship to a full-time role.

Now I build fintech systems at scale — real infrastructure that real people depend on for their financial lives. It is the most meaningful technical work I have done. And it started with a message that most people would have been too afraid to send.