Senior Smart Contract & Backend Engineer
7-year software engineer with 6 years building DeFi and infra smart contracts. Shipped production contracts managing $100M TVL at peak across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Celo. Experience at Fuel Labs, Shell Protocol, HaloFi, Instadapp. Security researcher, Solana Security Bootcamp fellow (top 75/2000), audit contest participant.
Salary
USD 180,000 – 220,000
Hyperlend
Jan 2026 — Jan 2026
Delivered a testnet vault integration on Hyper EVM routing capital through a bridge into HyperLiquid vault infrastructure for boosted yield.
Camp Network
Jun 2025 — Dec 2025
Built and shipped core protocol components including staking and proof-of-provenance/IP royalty infrastructure. Wrote bridge contracts integrated with LayerZero for mainnet launch, managing around $1M in TVL at peak within first 2 months.
Fuel Labs
Aug 2024 — Mar 2025
Shipped the Fuel bridge and rollup contracts with $80M in TVL at peak. Built comprehensive end-to-end integration test suite using Docker to simulate off-chain infrastructure and validate burn/mint bridge flows. Implemented automated backend service for staking rewards. Helped launch infrastructure that reached $70M–$80M TVL within days of going live.
Orb Club
Jul 2024 — Jul 2024
Shipped multiple smart contracts with transaction volume in millions post launch.
Juicebox DAO
Aug 2023 — Aug 2023
Contributed in shipping multiple crowdfunding related smart contracts.
Shell Protocol
Feb 2023 — Jul 2024
Led smart contract and protocol engineering for configurable AMM platform (v2) supporting constant sum/product, concentrated liquidity, and auction-style mechanisms. Led v3 engineering integrating Aave, Uniswap, Aerodrome, Pendle into unified UX with cross-chain swap/bridge infrastructure using Debridge and Odos. Helped scale protocol to $50M peak TVL.
Security Researcher
Jan 2023 — 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. Conducted private audits.
BuidlGuidl
May 2022 — May 2022
Developed multiple Web3 dev tools and dApps.
HaloFi
Aug 2021 — Nov 2022
Shipped 2 protocol versions across Polygon and Celo with integrations into Aave and Curve strategies. Co-founded and led protocol engineering for a gamified DeFi product, initially solo then managing an additional developer. Worked on subgraph development. Grew product to $10M–$20M peak TVL.
Frontier
Aug 2020 — Jul 2021
Responsible for Unifront Development, the backend engine supporting the mobile dApp. Developed complete smart contract architecture including proxy contracts with gasless transactions.
Instadapp
Oct 2019 — Dec 2019
Worked on creating smart contract connectors to perform complex DeFi operations in a single transaction. Worked on backend DeFi related APIs.
Syncrasy Tech
Jul 2019 — Jul 2020
Worked on private blockchain frameworks like R3 Corda and Hyperledger Fabric. Created Node.js REST APIs for a centralized exchange.
Fidelity International
Jul 2018 — Jul 2019
Worked on Java Spring Boot microservices. Developed an in-house R3 Corda blockchain dApp used in production.
BE · Computer Science
2014 – 2018