Blockchain × AI Engineer
Building the financial infrastructure of the open internet
8+ years in production DeFi · $1B+ AUM protocols · AI-augmented output
About
I'm a blockchain and smart contract engineer with over a decade of experience shipping production-grade DeFi protocols. My work spans liquid staking, restaking, stablecoins, appchain infrastructure, and cross-chain systems — protocols collectively managing over $1B in user assets.
What differentiates me is breadth alongside depth. I bring AI-augmented development workflows that compress iteration cycles, hard-won compliance awareness from building regulated financial products at 21Shares ($2B AUM ETF/ETP) and M0Labs (US Treasury-backed stablecoin), and a track record of leading engineering teams through security audits and protocol launches.
I build for the open financial internet — the infrastructure layer that most people will interact with without ever knowing it exists.
Expertise
Four pillars that define how I approach engineering — each reinforcing the others.
Production Solidity and Rust across Ethereum mainnet, L2s, and custom appchains. Deep experience with Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, and rollup internals — from protocol design through security audit remediation.
Integrating LLMs as first-class engineering tools — from code generation and review pipelines to autonomous agent workflows. Consistently achieving 10× output multipliers on complex protocol work through systematic AI leverage.
Designed and shipped liquid staking, restaking, cross-chain bridges, and stablecoin systems. Comfortable owning the full arc from whitepaper through mainnet launch, including tokenomics design and economic security analysis.
Regulated financial product experience from multiple jurisdictions — Swiss ETF/ETP infrastructure, US Treasury-backed stablecoin, and institutional staking. Familiar with security audit processes, best-practice standards, and the constraints that come with managing real-world capital.
Experience
8+ years building blockchain infrastructure — from early dApps through billion-dollar DeFi protocols and regulated financial products.
Led engineering for KernelDAO's staking and restaking ecosystem on BNB Chain and Ethereum.
Built appchain infrastructure enabling DAOs and onchain organizations to launch their own L3 rollups with dramatically reduced operating costs.
Authored the first version of the dual-governance smart contracts and architecture for the first institutional stablecoin directly backed by US Treasury bonds.
Protocol architecture for a high-performance onchain orderbook DEX.
Core engineering role at the world's largest crypto ETP issuer during period of rapid product expansion across European exchanges.
Notable Projects
Selected work from the past five years — protocols managing real capital at production scale.
Liquid restaking protocol built on EigenLayer. Users deposit LSTs and receive rsETH in return, unlocking restaking rewards while maintaining liquidity. Grew from launch to $1B+ AUM within months of mainnet deployment.
Onchain sequencer infrastructure for Syndicate's appchain platform. By moving transaction sequencing onchain, Syndicate Chain eliminates centralized sequencer costs and enables onchain organizations to operate at a fraction of traditional costs.
Institutional stablecoin protocol where registered minters can issue $M against US Treasury bill collateral. A compliance-first design enabling regulated financial institutions to participate in onchain money markets.