Experience

Selected impact

• Built and maintained Solidity systems for DeFi protocols with millions in TVL.
• Designed protocol components for yield vaults, staking systems, DEX infrastructure, and on-chain asset management.
• Reviewed smart contracts as a security researcher across public contests and private audits.
• Worked across the full DeFi lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment support, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Combined engineering and finance knowledge to reason about yield strategies, liquidity, risk, and protocol economics.

Professional experience

Senior Solidity Developer at Keyrock

date: August 2025 - present

• Building Solidity infrastructure for on-chain asset management, stablecoin issuance, and yield-generating strategies.
• Designing and implementing smart contract systems for non-delta-neutral financial strategies, emphasizing accounting correctness, risk controls, and secure execution.
• Translating financial product requirements into production-ready EVM architecture and protocol components.

Solidity Developer at Mangrove DEX

date: January 2025 - August 2025

• Contributed to the Mangrove ecosystem, a programmable orderbook DEX on Base.
• Worked on DeFi infrastructure involving market makers, liquidity provisioning, and concentrated-liquidity-style mechanics.
• Helped build protocol components aimed at improving capital efficiency and professional liquidity access in decentralized markets.

Smart Contract Auditor at Thesis Defense

date: May 2024 - present

• Performed security reviews for Solidity codebases across DeFi protocols and Web3 clients.
• Analyzed protocol logic, accounting flows, access control, oracle assumptions, and economic attack surfaces.
• Identified vulnerabilities and produced actionable technical reports for engineering teams.

DeFi Protocol Consultant at Veris Labs / MaxAPY

date: January 2025 - August 2025

• Provided technical guidance for MaxAPY protocol maintenance, optimization, and strategy-level improvements.
• Supported protocol decisions around smart contract architecture, risk, and operational reliability.
• Helped maintain DeFi infrastructure involving yield strategies, vault accounting, and production protocol operations.

Additional experience

Solidity Developer Lead at Veris Labs / MaxAPY

date: November 2023 - January 2025

• Led Solidity development for MaxAPY, a DeFi yield protocol with vault strategies and automated yield infrastructure.
• Designed and maintained vault and strategy logic for protocols managing significant on-chain liquidity.
• Implemented protocol components with focus on accounting correctness, APR optimization, risk management, and secure integrations.

EVM Security Researcher as Independent Professional

date: November 2023 - present

• Participated in public audit contests and private reviews focused on Solidity and DeFi security.
• Researched vulnerabilities involving accounting errors, invariant violations, access control, liquidation logic, oracle manipulation, and integration risk.
• Built a security mindset around adversarial testing, protocol invariants, and economic correctness.

Solidity Developer Lead at Koryntia

date: June 2023 - November 2023

• Led developers, managed tasks, reviewed GitHub pull requests, and maintained repositories for a DeFi loan protocol.
• Coordinated implementation work, optimized code, and enforced Solidity development best practices.

Full Stack Developer at Kudu Consultant

date: June 2023 - November 2023

• Developed frontend and backend components for external projects while also contributing to a capital-efficient AMM model.
• Worked across Web3 application logic, integrations, and DeFi mechanism design.

Smart Contract Engineer at Radxu Foundation

date: February 2023 - July 2023

• Developed, tested, and maintained smart contracts for Radxu using Solidity, Hardhat, Foundry, TypeScript, Ethers.js, Alchemy, and Slither.
• Contributed to Radxu CSA and Radxu Staking, supporting variable and fixed-income digital asset products and RADX token staking.

Smart Contract Engineer at Audicity

date: February 2023 - July 2023

• Developed TypeScript and Node.js scripts to monitor Radxu protocol metrics and support administrative operations.
• Used MySQL to query and filter blockchain events and track user staking positions for frontend and protocol monitoring workflows.

Freelance Blockchain Developer as Self-employed

date: September 2022 - February 2023

• Helped build a smart contract protocol for an NFT collection community.
• Gained early production experience across Solidity implementation, testing, deployment support, and client communication.

Protocol design and finance

• Designed and implemented DeFi mechanisms involving vault accounting, staking, yield generation, liquidity provisioning, and AMM-style models.
• Experience reasoning about APR/APY, fixed and variable income products, stablecoin systems, non-delta-neutral strategies, and asset management.
• Able to bridge finance concepts with Solidity implementation, smart contract risk, and protocol architecture.
• Comfortable analyzing incentives, liquidity flows, accounting invariants, risk assumptions, and economic edge cases.