# Deepak Lather — Web3 & Contractor Payments

Founder of FairPay and Fairstudio. Contractor accounts, invoice approval, custody-driven payouts, and a UMA-backed fantasy sports protocol by Deepak Lather.

Source portfolio: [Deepak Lather — Web3 & Contractor Payments](https://web3.deepaklather.com/).

## Contractor pay. Protocol design.

I founded FairPay for contractor payments and Fairstudio for Web3 fantasy sports. My work spans US virtual accounts, custody-connected payouts, Solidity contracts, and UMA-backed oracle escalation.

Focus: Funds flow, Custody integrations, Smart contracts.

## The rails, and the product around them.

FairPay connects contractor accounts, a company console, invoice approval, and custody providers. Fairstudio connects data validation, oracle escalation, and a Next.js PWA.

- [FairPay](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/fairpay.md)
- [Fairstudio](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/fairstudio.md)

## Selected work

The two founder-led ventures come first. Both include the underlying system and the application people use.

- [FairPay](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/fairpay.md) — US virtual accounts, contractor invoices, approval policies, and payouts through connected custody providers.
- [Fairstudio](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/fairstudio.md) — A fantasy sports protocol: IPFS data, on-chain validation, UMA escalation, and a Next.js PWA.
- [Flux](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/flux.md) — Sentry triage to code repair. Green agents implement the fix; red agents review the change.
- [The workflow engine](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/workflows.md) — Language → browser workflow → website actions. A break regenerates the flagged branch, not the whole flow.
- [MokamX & search](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/shopup.md) — Led MokamX’s Flutter app. Built multilingual and handwriting search with Node.js and Elasticsearch.
- [Asda’s web platform](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/walmart.md) — Led Asda.com’s CMS migration, owned the GraphQL BFF, and built a Remix SSR proof of concept.

These notes describe Deepak Lather’s engineering contributions and founder roles. Authorship of a writeup does not assert ownership of a company’s product.

## Experience

### FairPay — Founder

Closed Oct 2026

Contractor payments: account opening, invoice approval, and custody-driven payouts.

Founded FairPay and owned its funds flow: Airwallex integration and US virtual accounts, a self-serve company console, contractor invoices, approval policies, payment batches and intents, and connected custody providers. The venture closed in October 2026.

Related case: [FairPay](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/fairpay.md).

### Firstwork — Founding Software Engineer

Aug 2024 — Nov 2025

Claude agent fixes and review, browser workflows, decision-driven forms, and editing tools.

Built Flux’s Claude agent orchestration with Sentry and Linear integrations, the browser workflow engine with branch-local regeneration, a decision-rule form builder powering ATS/LMS/Automations, and a custom WYSIWYG editor with advanced media support.

Related case: [The workflow engine](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/workflows.md).

### Fairstudio Technologies — Founder

Jan — Jun 2024

Web3 fantasy sports: protocol, data validation, indexation, and a Next.js PWA.

Founded Fairstudio. Built IPFS-backed data with on-chain validation, a UMA-backed low-bond oracle escalation game, smart contracts and indexation, a real-time leaderboard, and an admin dashboard. The protocol included affiliate earnings for influencers.

Related case: [Fairstudio](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/fairstudio.md).

### ShopUp — Senior Software Developer

Jun 2022 — Dec 2023

MokamX self-service commerce and multilingual, handwriting-enabled search.

Led the self-service MokamX application using Flutter, Riverpod, and WebView. Built multilingual and handwriting search with Node.js and Elasticsearch.

Related case: [MokamX & search](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/shopup.md).

### Walmart — Software Engineer

Jan 2020 — Jun 2022

Asda CMS migrations, GraphQL BFF ownership, and a Remix SSR proof of concept.

Led the Asda.com CMS migration, worked on the groceries.asda.com Adobe migration, owned the GraphQL backend-for-frontend, and built a Remix SSR proof of concept. Rookie of the Year, December 2020.

Related case: [Asda’s web platform](https://web3.deepaklather.com/projects/walmart.md).

## Contact

[deepaklather2709@gmail.com](mailto:deepaklather2709@gmail.com).

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