Eidolon

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Senior Smart Contract Engineer and Defi Strategist @ Byte Masons

Career Interests: Smart Contract Systems, AMMs, Managed DeFi strategies, Lending/Borrowing Markets, Perp Dex Design, MEV Capture/Reduction, the EVM, L2s, L3s, Appchains, Hybrid/Modular Blockchains, Applications of ZKPs, Defi Data Analysis, Smart Contract Security

DeFi + Smart Contract Work:

  • reaper.farm: yield optimizer on multiple chains with many varieties of actively managed strategies
    • Personally written strategies that have amassed > $10 million concurrent TVL on multiple occassions
    • Extensively interacted with other major DeFi protocols and their forks
    • Built custom BalancerV2 zapper
    • Designed and implemented realtime rebalancing simulation bot to optimize lending market looping strategy parameters
    • Deployed hundreds of smart contracts
    • Managed several aspects of product/engineering
  • ethos.finance: a hyper-efficient stablecoin on optimism based on liquity, with actively managed collateral
    • Wrote and deployed strategies to manage deposited collateral on external DeFi platforms
    • Assisted with mechanism design and product direction for v2
    • Mentored several Junior Smart Contract Engineers
    • Designed open source extension to Timeless/Bunni's oLIT
      • Byte Masons oToken repository
      • Adds support for multiple different choices to exercise the oToken
      • Massively increases flexibility, future-proofs design
  • immortal.farm: an unreleased multi-LP autocompounder on fantom.
    • My first experience with solidity and first independent programming project.
    • Personally did all aspects other than the front end.
    • This project was to help me learn solidity.
    • Got an audit but chose not to release out of an abundance of caution and receiving a more promising opportunity

Skills + Qualifications:

  • BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering with data science specialization from a top 20 US University
  • Languages: Solidity, JS, Python, C, Matlab, SQL
  • Off Chain Tools: foundry, hardhat, ethers.js, tenderly, (gnosis) safe, dune
  • DeFi Smart Contracts: AaveV2/V3, BalancerV2, UniswapV2/V3, CompoundV2, Solidly/Velodrome/Thena/Ramses, Liquity, Yearn/Beefy, Curve, Tarot, Sommelier, Optimistic L2s, ERC4626 vaults, exchanges, lending markets, incentive mechanisms in general, upgradeable smart contracts

Other:

  • Extreme DeFi enthusiast
  • Avid reader of science fiction and fantasy
  • Currently in my 20s