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Mona Paul

Rust & Blockchain Architect ยท AI Systems Builder ยท On-Chain Infrastructure Engineer

๐Ÿ“ Lagos, Nigeria

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Self-taught blockchain and systems engineer since 2020. 7+ years spanning Rust, Solidity, Svelte, TypeScript, and AI-agent design. Core contributor to Solana DeFi tooling with 343+ GitHub stars and 2,363+ Discord members. Founder of TeemahAI โ€” a Solana launchpad and AI trading agent built solo, end-to-end.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 36,000 โ€“ 120,000

Skills

AI Agents & LLM Workflows10/10
Anchor (Solana)10/10
Bonding Curve Mechanics10/10
DeFi Architecture10/10
EVM Smart Contracts10/10
gRPC & Streaming (10/10)Low-Latency Backend Systems (10/10)Real-Time Data Pipelines (10/10)Rust (10/10)Solidity (10/10)Svelte (10/10)TypeScript (10/10)Event-Driven Architecture (8/10)Full-Stack Product Engineering (8/10)NFT & ERC721 Development (8/10)Open Source Contribution (8/10)JavaScript (7/10)Smart Contract Auditing (7/10)Security Auditing (7/10)Smart Contract Development (7/10)

Work Experience

Founder ยท Architect ยท Lead Engineer

TeemahAI

Jan 2025 โ€” Present

Built a pump.fun-style Solana token launchpad with an integrated AI trading agent solo. Architected and deployed Solana smart contracts in Rust/Anchor covering token creation, bonding curve pricing, spot trading, perpetuals, flash bets, and CTO mechanics. Built native AI agent enabling natural language token trading. Shipped full Svelte frontend with real-time charts and wallet signing. 11 live projects on-chain.

Rust & Blockchain Engineer ยท Core Contributor

Shyft

Jan 2024 โ€” Aug 2026

Core contributor to the most adopted open-source Solana DeFi tooling repo (github.com/Shyft-to/solana-defi). Grew repo from 0 to 343+ GitHub stars and 117+ forks. Architected real-time transaction streaming, high-performance Rust parsing pipelines, and gRPC-based event-driven infrastructure used by thousands of developers globally.

Independent Builder

AI Agents & Automation

Jan 2024 โ€” Present

Built a Twitter AI Marketing Agent with intent detection and contextual automated response generation. Built a WhatsApp AI Assistant with production conversational AI backend, natural language understanding, and automated workflow execution.

Solidity Developer & Partnerships

Artreus Store

Jan 2023 โ€” Dec 2023

Secured integrations with Arbitrum, Linea, Caduceus, Unstoppable Domains, Evan Luthra, Web3Port, Cube3, Near Protocol, and Agwarwal (TensorFlow lead scientist, Google).

Chief Operating Officer

Vefi (VefDef)

Jan 2022 โ€” Dec 2022

Led partnerships with Telos, Caduceus, Reef Finance, Ontology, and Bitgert. Raised $500K through strategic collaborations.

Senior Solidity Developer

Valhalla

Jan 2022 โ€” Dec 2022

Architected deflationary ERC20 token with BUSD reward mechanics and sustainable tokenomics.

Solidity Tutor

Ophir Academy

Jan 2022 โ€” Dec 2023

Trained 20+ developers in Solidity; multiple alumni now working professionally in blockchain.

Senior Solidity Developer

Enhance Finance

Jan 2021 โ€” Dec 2021

Built ERC20, ERC721, and NFT marketplace stack โ€” project reached $60M market cap ATH. Invented dynamic reward token switching, a novel DeFi primitive first of its kind at the time.

Solidity Developer

Eat Finance

Jan 2021 โ€” Dec 2021

First Web3 project โ€” built the protocol's foundational ERC20 token.

Education

Self-taught

Blockchain & Systems Engineering

2020 โ€“ Present