Hey everyone! I'm Nikhil and I've been working for Parity in the FRAME team since April 2023. I would like to join Polkadot's technical fellowship as a Dan I member.

Here are some of my contributions:

• Construct Runtime V2
  • Intro: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1378
  • Deployed to Westend: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3754
• Feeless Calls
  • Intro: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1926
  • Fixes: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3993
  • Based on Transaction Extension (POC): https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2751
• Task API
  • Started by Sam but I took it to completion: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1343
• Default Configs
  • Extension: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/14682
  • Syntax Improvements
    • https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3652
    • https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1823
    • https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3505
  • Others
    • https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2409
    • https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2476
• Parameter Pallet Macros: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2061
• Various Improvements
  • Optional Storage Hashers in Dev Mode: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13815
  • Force Origin Support in Benchmarking: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13845
  • Composite Enum Improvments: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1857
  • Cfg attrs: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2677

Polkadot address: 13kYKwstJs5PVp9d7qGLy4tEa5ZcKTFb9Y5juNxgjaxeZZMH