Rust Engineer / Blockchain Developer
📍 Belgrade, Serbia
Research-driven Rust engineer with 4 years of experience building critical infrastructure – from L2 rollups and ZK proving systems to TEE enclaves and EVM execution engines. Specializing in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in async Rust. Strong mathematical foundation.
Salary
USD 80,000 – 130,000
Diffuse
Feb 2025 — Apr 2025
Worked on ZK/TEE-powered non-custodial lending protocol and prime brokerage. Built SGX-backed Datafeeds service (secure oracle aggregator inside Intel SGX enclaves). Developed cross-chain collateral abstraction and monitoring layer. Also ramped up on a large TypeScript codebase for NEAR Intents, deployed services on Kubernetes, configured RabbitMQ pipelines, and shipped chain support for Aleo.
Tx Fusion
Jul 2024 — Feb 2025
Primary Rust engineer on Via protocol – a zksync-era validium on Bitcoin. Built a Rust-based Bitcoin client from scratch, adopted zksync orchestration layers, created new verification library. Research, architecture, and implementation within the zksync codebase.
Pontem Network
Sept 2022 — Jun 2024
Built products for the Aptos blockchain. Developed Move Code Playground (IDE for Move language in Rust/WASM/JS) and Lumio (L2 optimistic rollup using reth, OP-stack, EVM, MoveVM). Participated in protocol design and research. Built cross-VM calls mechanism, launched devnet & testnet. Designed and optimized execution pipeline achieving sub-40ms latency at 1k TPS, with over 11k TPS peak throughput.
Blockscout
May 2022 — Sept 2022
Backend development in Rust at the leading EVM block explorer. Built a Verkle tree proof visualization service using EVM and JSON RPC API.
BSc · Applied Mathematics and Informatics / Computer Technology
2020 – 2022
Physics and Mathematics
2017 – 2020