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Elod Varga

Chief Technology Officer | Decentralized Trading Infrastructure | High-Performance Systems

๐Ÿ“ Satu Mare, Romania

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Engineer and technical leader with 9+ years across decentralized finance, trading infrastructure, and AI systems. Built low-latency risk engines, prediction market backends, on-chain/off-chain coordination layers, and decentralized liquidity protocols in production. Designed and audited smart contracts for financial settlement, built JIT data ingestion pipelines on live market data. Founded and exited two on-chain protocols.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 150,000 โ€“ 300,000

Skills

Real-Time / Event-Driven Architecture9/10
Risk Engine Design9/10
DeFi Protocol Architecture9/10
Prediction Market Backends9/10
Solidity / Smart Contracts9/10
Node.js (9/10)TypeScript / JavaScript (8/10)AWS / GCP / Cloud Infrastructure (8/10)Docker / Kubernetes (8/10)EVM / zkSync (8/10)Golang (8/10)Microservices & Distributed Systems (8/10)Python (8/10)React / Next.js (8/10)Smart Contract Auditing (8/10)Agentic AI Systems (ReAct, RAG, MCP) (8/10)Java / Spring Boot (7/10)C++ / Cython (7/10)Apache Airflow / Data Pipelines (7/10)Elasticsearch / Redis (7/10)

Work Experience

Fractional Lead Engineer & Fractional CTO

Parletto.bet

Nov 2025 โ€” Present

Building prediction market infrastructure with on-chain settlement and a decentralized liquidity layer. Designed and built a risk engine on top of live Polymarket order book and position data with real-time exposure calculation, dynamic margin, and automated risk controls. Built event-driven backend for high-frequency market updates with sub-second response times. Designed decentralized liquidity pool contracts, ran internal smart contract security audit, and built on-chain/off-chain coordination layer.

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Shinso

Jul 2025 โ€” Present

Leading engineering on blockchain execution tooling combining VM internals, compiler design, and AI. Designed and trained Solmover, a proprietary MoE model for smart contract transpilation. Built hybrid ReAct + Plan & Act agentic pipeline. Set up edge RAG systems with MCP servers. Designed AST-to-IR pipelines with semantic mapping for cross-chain contract execution.

Partner Success Manager & Hands-on Product Owner

Sophon Labs (zkSync L2)

Jan 2025 โ€” Jul 2025

Led product development and ecosystem growth for Sophon Wallet and partner DApp integrations. Took Sophon Wallet from concept to production including account abstraction and a wallet SDK used across 15+ DApps. Managed technical relationships with 50+ ecosystem partners in DeFi, gaming, and consumer apps.

Founder

Lara Protocol

Jan 2024 โ€” Jan 2025

Built a full-stack staking and delegation protocol that reached $2M TVL. Successfully exited early 2025. Built React frontend, Node.js backend, and modular Solidity contracts with comprehensive test suite. Integrated with 5 DeFi platforms and set up CI/CD pipelines.

DeFi Lead / Ecosystem Engineer

Taraxa.io

Mar 2022 โ€” Jan 2025

Led DeFi strategy and built ecosystem infrastructure growing to 40+ applications and $4M TVL. Co-founded TrendMoon.ai, a real-time on-chain and social data analytics platform. Built Apache Airflow pipelines for large-scale social data ingestion, JIT data ingestion layer, and financial market backtesting framework. Built chain Explorer, Faucet, Community Site, developer SDKs, and founded taraSwap DEX (successfully exited).

Blockchain & Full Stack Developer

Keyko

Jun 2021 โ€” Apr 2022

Full-stack developer on enterprise blockchain projects with partners including Ethereum Foundation, Near, and Polygon. Led development of Autonomies.io audio-NFT marketplace. Contributed to Near's Rainbow Bridge cross-chain bridging infrastructure. Built game-embedding integration for Boson Protocol and integrated Celo's ImpactMarket UBI protocol.

Cloud Solutions Engineer

Bosch

May 2020 โ€” Jul 2021

Backend engineer on the Autonomous Valet Parking project (Level 5 autonomous driving). Wrote C++ and Python modules with Cython bindings for real-time vehicle vision pipelines. Built and deployed cloud-based microservices on edge hardware for real-time parking map generation and multi-vehicle coordination.

Senior Java Software Developer

Fortech

May 2019 โ€” May 2020

Backend developer on the Deutsche Telekom/Daimler AG microservices migration, moving from a monolith to clean architecture with thorough test coverage. Technologies: Java 8-11, Spring Boot, Spring Data, TypeScript, React, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, MySQL.

Software Engineer / Web Developer

Wolters Kluwer / Webby Soft

Jan 2017 โ€” Jan 2020

Early roles in enterprise Java development, OCR and ML application development (C#.NET, ANN models), and leading intern teams in multinational environments.

Education

Gritnova Global Campus

Micro-Degree ยท Blockchain Management

2022 โ€“ 2023

Babes-Bolyai University

MSc ยท Enterprise Application Design & Development

2019 โ€“ 2021

Babes-Bolyai University

BSc ยท Business & IT

2016 โ€“ 2019