DeFi Engineer / Smart Contract Developer (Solidity)
Verona, Italy
Solidity Engineer with 5+ years building EVM protocols across DeFi and other domains. Designs production-grade, upgradeable, role-scoped contracts with rigorous testing (unit, invariant, fuzz). Security-minded leader fluent in best practices, OpenZeppelin libs and proxy patterns (UUPS/Beacon/Transparent); sets technical roadmap and long-term architecture for scalability, modularity, and security.
Salary
USD 160 – 250
Gensyn
Nov 2025 — Jan 2026
Contributed to development of smart contract infrastructure for Gensyn's decentralized machine learning compute protocol. Collaborated with protocol and backend teams to integrate on-chain logic with off-chain compute layers. Participated in code reviews, wrote unit and integration tests, and helped optimize gas efficiency across deployed contracts.
KernelDAO
Oct 2024 — Sept 2025
Designed and shipped an upgradeable protocol on BSC (UUPS/Beacon, RBAC, Pausable) with comprehensive unit/invariant/fuzz testing in Foundry. Authored upgrade runbooks and implemented timelocked, multisig admin workflows. Owned end-to-end delivery across trade-off analysis, security posture, technical docs, and PR reviews. Reached $732M in TVL under a long-term architecture focused on scalability, modularity and security.
BistroIQ
Jan 2024 — Apr 2024
Implemented Rust canisters and a dApp deployed on the ICP blockchain; delivered upgradeable patterns and test harnesses. Learned Rust quickly from scratch and shipped ICP canisters; owned deployment and upgrade process.
Cardinal
Jun 2023 — Sept 2024
Contributed to DeFi-oriented projects and integrations across multiple EVM chains, applying upgrade-safety patterns and access-control best practices. Coordinated with external auditors and the CTO to close findings on ~2k LOC (ERC-721, meta-tx, Transparent Proxy). Built a multi-chain Web3 domain scanner (Solidity + TypeScript) to standardize cross-chain name-resolution checks.
FlorestaNFT
Mar 2023 — Dec 2023
Owned technical roadmap as CTO. Delivered Polygon MVP dApp and NFT collections representing physical land and carbon-credit flows.
ClubAnimals NFT, DeadApeClub NFT
Mar 2022 — Feb 2023
Shipped ERC-721 contract on Polygon; developed the site and advised on on-chain/web3 architecture. Owned dApp and ERC-721 contracts on Ethereum; prioritized rapid iteration and user-driven UX.
MrEnergy
Jan 2020 — Dec 2023
Led large-scale energy-efficiency platform: backend (PHP/Symfony), APIs with role-based access; ingestion to InfluxDB; multi-tenant. Operated production/staging on AWS (EC2, RDS, SES, IAM, S3) and OVH; set up CI/CD & monitoring.
ArmourAgent
Apr 2017 — Jun 2022
Led product & engineering for a two-sided recruitment marketplace in the security industry. Designed a modular Symfony backend with REST APIs; implemented GDPR-aligned data handling. Ran AWS with CI/CD and monitoring; set engineering standards and mentored a small team.
GoGoBus
Feb 2015 — Present
Co-founded and owned platform architecture from MVP to scale for a group-travel booking startup. Built a booking engine (dynamic pricing, seat inventory, payments, cancellations/refunds) plus a partner portal for coach operators. Operated AWS-based infra with caching/workers, observability, and cost-aware deployments.
WishDays (acquired by SmartBox)
Oct 2014 — Oct 2015
Built e-commerce features, integrated payment gateways, optimized queries.
Copiaincolla
Sept 2011 — Oct 2014
Delivered marketing sites and small web apps; full-stack (PHP/JS/CSS) with CMS integrations and performance tuning.
Erasmus Exchange Program
2008 – 2009
MSc · Computer Engineering
2007 – 2010
BSc · Computer Engineering
2003 – 2007