Aleksandr Davydov
Senior Smart Contract Engineer
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Smart contract engineer with 8+ years building DeFi protocols, vault systems, and on-chain infrastructure — shipped lending protocols handling institutional capital (Wintermute, Jane Street), 8 yield strategies across 3 mainnets, and Account Abstraction tooling featured by Binance Research. Co-founded a project, owned a product roadmap, and shipped things end-to-end.
Work Preferences
Salary
USD 120,000 – 200,000
Skills
Work Experience
Smart Contract Engineer
Protofire
May 2024 — Mar 2026
Designed and shipped a hybrid ERC-4626 vault with Safe multisig — supporting programmatic and manual asset allocation without new strategy contracts per yield source. Built 8 yield strategies across QuickSwap, Steer Protocol, and Aave; protocol deployed on Polygon / Base / Flare mainnet.
Co-Founder & Smart Contract Engineer
Partitura
Mar 2023 — May 2024
Co-architected a no-code visual transaction builder for EVM chains — multi-step DeFi flows compiled into batched transactions via Safe. Secured a grant; project featured by Binance Research as a notable initiative in the Account Abstraction space.
Smart Contract Developer
Superdao
Jun 2022 — May 2023
Built a modular DAO framework with NFT membership, payment modules, and governance primitives — hosted ~100 active communities. Contributed to core contract architecture and shipped new on-chain features across the platform.
Smart Contract Engineer
Clearpool
Jun 2021 — Jun 2022
Contributed to v1 launch of an uncollateralized institutional lending protocol — borrowers included Wintermute, Jane Street, and Folkvang. Implemented lending pool mechanics, interest rate models, and permission systems in Solidity.
Software Engineer → Product Owner
DAOGroup
Mar 2017 — Feb 2020
Launched a custom blockchain for the iGaming industry — delivered mainnet with 30+ active validators. Designed a state-channel P2P gaming protocol (dice, roulette) with peer-to-peer PRNG; published as a technical paper.
Education
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Bachelor's · Information Technology
2013 – 2017