Engineering Lead / Co-founder
New York
Experienced software engineer and engineering leader with deep expertise in blockchain protocols, EVM, smart contracts, and backend systems. Co-founder at Gattai, former Engineering Lead at Berachain, and Protocol Engineer at Dapper Labs. Background spans DeFi, protocol infrastructure, mobile, and distributed systems.
Salary
USD 200,000
Gattai
Jan 2025 — Present
Orchestrated multi-agent coding workflows across implementation, review, testing, and integration. Developed a Rust SDK, CLI, and host daemon supporting both Firecracker and Virtualization.framework execution environments. Shipped GitHub-connected agent workflows for repository selection, persistent sessions, streaming, diffs, and PRs.
Berachain
Jan 2023 — Jan 2025
Owned engineering work across core chain, smart contracts, and backend systems for protocol infrastructure and DeFi products. Co-authored BeaconKit, Berachain's modular EVM consensus client. Architected an EIP-4788 root-follower system. Owned Solidity smart contracts for lending, DEX, routing, and Proof of Liquidity. Led most engineering hiring and onboarding as the team grew from 4 to 40 engineers.
Dapper Labs (Flow)
Jan 2022 — Jan 2023
Reduced archive node infrastructure costs by an estimated $1M+ annually by removing a 700GB+ in-memory trie requirement. Reduced access node gRPC response times by approximately 83%. Owned Flow's Coinbase Rosetta integration, adding CI and integration tests.
Fabriik
Jan 2020 — Jan 2022
Owned the full-stack post-trade settlement app and daily OTC reporting workflows. Developed trade and market-data connectors with balance alerting across 7 centralized exchanges and liquidity providers. Rewrote core order execution and management services, standardizing REST APIs across trading workflows.
HelpWear
Jan 2020 — Jan 2021
Architected and built a native Android app for collecting real-time patient health data from a proprietary BLE device. Implemented local data storage and upload workflows for patient monitoring data.
Coinsquare
Jan 2019 — Dec 2019
Built and launched StellarX, a native iOS decentralized exchange, and maintained the open source Stellar iOS SDK.
Koi Loyalty (Acquired by Coinsquare)
Jan 2018 — Jan 2019
Built the iOS wallet and merchant payments client, integrating multiple payment providers for partnered retailers.
Uber
Jan 2017 — Dec 2017
Built the first system for managing driver compliance and municipal driver registrations in regulated Canadian markets.
B.Eng. · Software Engineering
? – 2018