Smart Contract & Protocol Engineer
📍 Dubai
Smart contract and protocol engineer with 4+ years building DeFi protocols and 6+ years of backend experience. Core contributor to AMMs, liquid staking, stablecoins, and trading infrastructure, with contracts deployed across Ethereum, L2s and alt-L1s. Experienced in protocol design, security, fuzzing, invariant testing, MEV bots, and HFT systems.
Salary
USD 200,000 – 300,000
Eternis AI
May 2025 — Jan 2026
Lead developer for Lume, a full-stack prediction market platform on Monad. Implemented Safe-based wallet onboarding, oracle-driven market resolution, crypto onramps, and operator tooling. Built MCP server integrations, TEE-based proxy infrastructure for private LLM routing, Baseapp bot for Freysa, Stripe-based credit systems, multi-token payment services, and a Rust-based Zcash payments backend.
Valantis Labs
Sept 2022 — Apr 2025
Core contributor to Valantis modular DEX architecture. Built HOT AMM (hybrid RFQ-AMM) and STEX AMM for LST assets with $40M+ TVL on Hyperliquid. Designed comprehensive test suite with 100% coverage including fuzz and invariant tests. Led protocol audits with Statemind, Hexens, and Sherlock. Researched EMA-based AMM mechanisms for LST and pegged assets.
pStake Finance
Aug 2021 — Feb 2022
Led development of Eth2 and yBTC liquid staking protocol architecture. Designed smart contract system using cToken exchange rate model. Responsible for security reviews and audits with Peckshield and Trail of Bits. Developed and deployed token vesting contracts for PSTAKE token distribution.
Lemma Finance
Jul 2021 — Nov 2021
Built delta-neutral stablecoin protocol USDL using perpetual futures hedging on MCDEX. Implemented xUSDL staking contract, developed periphery contracts and zap infrastructure, wrote full unit test coverage, and participated in security audit with Peckshield.
Kount
May 2019 — Feb 2021
Built accounts receivable automation platform integrating Tally, QuickBooks, and RBL Bank virtual account APIs for automated payment reconciliation.
Vedantu
Feb 2018 — Mar 2019
Senior backend engineer for Vedantu Doubt Solving App (Google Play Customer Choice Award 2019), building internal subscription and payment systems.
B.Tech · Aerospace Engineering
? – 2015