Overview#

Senior Blockchain Engineer with experience building DeFi protocols and microservices, specializing in Rust based development. Contributed to early Solana ecosystem development through protocol implementations that reached over $1B in TVL. Technical expertise spans Solana, Cosmos, and Ethereum ecosystems. Background in systems administration and security auditing.

For a list of notable open source contributions see here

Work Experience#

Scanworks, Research & Development | 2023 - Present#

  • Improvements to IBC rate-limiting middleware deployed on Osmosis and Neutron chains
  • Developed indexing service for Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP)
  • Built Solana transaction simulation API for state change analysis
  • Prototyped Solana integrations with Confidential Token Transfers, and Transfer Hooks

Tulip Protocol, Core Developer | 2021 - 2023#

  • Core developer for protocol that reached $1.4B TVL
  • Built auto compounding vaults, leveraged yield farming, and various vault strategies
  • Implemented risk management systems
  • Maintained protocol automation infrastructure

RTrade Technologies Ltd, CTO | 2018 - 2020#

  • Developed Temporal, a high-availability IPFS platform
  • Lead a team of five developing an experimental supply-chain solution
  • Operated cryptocurrency mining infrastructure (500+ GPUs) with near 100% uptime

The Vanbex Group, Full Stack Developer | 2018#

  • Built backend API integrating Ethereum and Rootstock blockchains
  • Implemented cryptocurrency payment processing