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Viraz Malhotra

Senior Smart Contract & Backend Engineer

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7-year software engineering veteran with 6 years building DeFi and infrastructure smart contracts. Shipped production contracts managing $100M+ TVL across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon and Celo at Fuel Labs, Shell Protocol, Instadapp, and Juicebox DAO. Also active as a security researcher in Ethereum and Solana ecosystems.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 180,000 โ€“ 220,000

Skills

Smart Contract Development10/10
Solidity10/10
Forge/Foundry9/10
DeFi Protocol Engineering9/10
Cross-chain Architecture8/10
TypeScript (8/10)JavaScript (8/10)Hardhat (8/10)Smart Contract Security/Auditing (8/10)Fuzz Testing (8/10)EthersJs (8/10)Web3Js (7/10)Node.js (7/10)Rust (7/10)Slither (7/10)Tenderly (7/10)The Graph/Subgraph (7/10)ReactJs (6/10)Hyperledger/R3 Corda (5/10)Java Spring Boot (5/10)

Work Experience

Senior Smart Contract Engineer

Camp Network

Jun 2025 โ€” Dec 2025

Worked on development of origin smart contracts with end-to-end fuzz testing and origin SDK. Wrote bridge (integrated with LayerZero) and staking smart contracts for mainnet launch managing around $1M in TVL at peak.

Senior Smart Contract Engineer

Fuel Labs

Aug 2024 โ€” Mar 2025

Shipped the Fuel bridge contracts with $80M in TVL at peak. Worked on development of Fuel rollup smart contracts interacting with the Fuel sequencer on the Cosmos chain and backend service for distributing staking rewards.

Senior Smart Contract Engineer

Shell Protocol

Feb 2023 โ€” Jul 2024

Shipped multiple DeFi adapters with cross-chain architecture using aggregators like Debridge, managing around $50M in TVL at peak. Shipped token vesting contract integrated with Sablier for TGE and a custom fractionalizer integrated with the Shell AMM.

Security Researcher

Security Researcher

Jan 2023 โ€” Present

Selected in top 75 fellows out of 2000 for Rektoff Solana Security Bootcamp. Participated in multiple audits at Code4rena. Ranked 6th in Euler Cantina contest and conducted private audits.

Lead Blockchain Engineer

HaloFi

Aug 2021 โ€” Nov 2022

Shipped multiple smart contracts managing around $10M in TVL at peak, integrating with multiple DeFi protocols. Worked on subgraph development and shipped an in-house indexer for efficient UI data rendering.

Blockchain Developer

Frontier

Aug 2020 โ€” Jul 2021

Responsible for Unifront development, the backend engine supporting the mobile dApp. Developed complete smart contract architecture including proxy contracts with gasless transactions.

Blockchain Developer

Syncrasy Tech

Jul 2019 โ€” Jul 2020

Worked on private blockchain frameworks like R3 Corda and Hyperledger Fabric. Created Node.js REST APIs for a centralized exchange.

Graduate Programmer

Fidelity International

Jul 2018 โ€” Jul 2019

Worked on creating Java Spring Boot microservices. Developed an in-house R3 Corda blockchain dApp used in production.

Education

Northcap University

BE ยท Computer Science

2014 โ€“ 2018