The first known woman Bitcoin Core contributor, Amiti Uttarwar has received multiple grants making her one of the few paid coders developing bitcoin's underlying code. She's spending this opportunity to do more than improve Bitcoin’s code though – she’s also mentoring the young, promising minds of Bitcoin’s next generation of developers.

Her meteoric success as one of Bitcoin Core’s first fully funded developers – and as one of its brightest new minds for development and mentorship - earned her a spot in CoinDesk’s Most Influential list for 2020 and Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021.

The daughter of Indian immigrants, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and veteran of Silicon Valley startups, Amiti represents a new movement of software engineers developing open-source money. When she's not coding, Amiti enjoys hiking and meditating.