Smart Contract Engineer
Dubai, UAE
DeFi-focused Smart Contract Engineer with 5 years of industry experience working on production Ethereum systems. Strong background in protocol architecture, security-critical financial logic, audited mainnet deployments, upgrades, and long-term protocol operations. Hands-on across Solidity, Foundry, backend systems, simulations, debugging, SDKs, and subgraphs.
Salary
USD 120,000 – 150,000
Puffer Finance
Jun 2024 — Present
Developed and deployed smart contracts for the native Liquid Restaking Protocol (nLRP). Designed and implemented the Puffer Institutional Vault. Created a permissioned validator flow for internal validators. Integrated restaking flows with EigenLayer and AVS support. Built subgraphs and backend services. Established automated CI/CD testing pipeline using Tenderly, CircleCI, and GitHub, reducing contract failure rates by 40%.
Freelance
Jan 2022 — Present
Built and maintained smart contracts for DeFi and NFT projects. Worked on DAO governance, liquidity mining mechanisms, and NFT marketplaces. Provided backend integrations using Node.js and related tooling.
Timeswap Labs
May 2021 — Jun 2024
Contributed to development of a DeFi lending and borrowing protocol on Ethereum. Assisted in building an AMM-based money market protocol. Supported backend systems using Django and contributed to SDK development. Wrote and tested smart contracts, deployment scripts, and subgraphs.
Bachelor · Information Technology
2018 – 2022