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:
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BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering with data science specialization from a top 20 US
University
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Languages: Solidity, JS, Python, C, Matlab, SQL
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Off Chain Tools: foundry, hardhat, ethers.js, tenderly, (gnosis) safe, dune
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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:
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Extreme DeFi enthusiast
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Avid reader of science fiction and fantasy
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Currently in my 20s