Senior Protocol Engineer
Senior protocol engineer securing Solidity and EVM systems at scale, from $2B+ TVL liquid restaking to RWA and tokenization, with a security-first, audit-hardened approach.
About
Building at the intersection of security & scale
I'm a senior protocol engineer with 8 years in software engineering, 7 of them building Solidity and EVM systems in production, where mistakes are expensive and reliability is the whole job.
My work spans liquid restaking at $2B+ peak TVL, cross-chain deployments and DeFi integrations across 20+ chains, and RWA and tokenization systems. My contracts have been audited by Trail of Bits, ConsenSys Diligence, Sigma Prime, and Bailsec, alongside open audit competitions.
I lead Kelp's on-chain engineering team, and I have led protocol security response and recovery at the highest-stakes level. The lesson I carry from it is very specific: on anything that touches user funds, there is no such thing as "probably fine."
I run an AI-native workflow with a human gate on every funds-touching line: I build with one model, review with another, and scale autonomy in proportion to how reversible a mistake is.
Experience
Roles & protocol delivery
Kelp DAO
August 2024 – PresentSenior Protocol Engineer
A leading liquid restaking protocol built around rsETH, with $2B+ peak TVL and broad multi-chain DeFi integrations.
Impact: Lead the on-chain team across rsETH liquid restaking at $2B+ peak TVL and 20+ chains. Built the one-click Aave leverage integration, co-designed the protocol's fortification and emergency-pause architecture with the CTO, led the post-incident recovery through to users being made whole, and architected Kred, the RWA and tokenized-credit line, from scratch. Now leading the migration to Chainlink CCIP as part of the broader protocol security hardening program.
Intuition Systems, Inc.
December 2023 – August 2024Senior Solidity Engineer
A specialized Layer 3 and decentralized knowledge network for Information Finance (InfoFi), optimized for attestations and building token-curated knowledge graphs.
Impact: Led architecture, development, and open-sourcing of Intuition v1 and v2, shipping 30+ contracts through rigorous audits (Trail of Bits, ConsenSys Diligence) and open competitions. Designed the novel MultiVault primitive, a fusion of ERC-1155 and ERC-4626, and supported the Arbitrum-stack L3 launch.
TokenFlow
May 2023 – December 2023Senior Solidity Engineer
TokenFlow delivered custom smart contract systems for advanced web3 products.
Impact: Owned architecture and implementation across 15+ client engagements with strong security, performance, and delivery constraints.
MAJR, Inc.
June 2022 – May 2023Senior Solidity Engineer
MAJR focused on creator memberships and community-owned digital asset products.
Impact: Built DAO and NFT infrastructure from scratch across 20+ contracts, taking systems through multiple external audits.
LongTerm Finance
December 2020 – June 2022Solidity Engineer
A tokenized index protocol designed to bring broad altcoin market exposure on-chain.
Impact: Developed core protocol contracts supporting 10+ collateral types across multi-chain deployments.
Avix Finance
March 2019 – December 2020Solidity Engineer
A DeFi volatility protocol focused on bringing VIX-style exposure on-chain.
Impact: Built custom oracle infrastructure enabling high-fidelity volatility tracking and on-chain tokenization.
ScaleRoad LLC
July 2018 – March 2019Full Stack Engineer
A SaaS platform for structured investment research and workflow management.
Impact: Improved UX and platform reliability through tailored frontend systems and resilient low-latency APIs.
Skills
Tools & expertise
Interests
Beyond the code
Web3
Staying close to the frontier of DeFi, Ethereum scaling, protocol design, and security through continuous research into emerging systems and market structure.
Investing
Long-horizon crypto investing grounded in disciplined research, risk framing, and thesis-driven decision-making.
Travel
Learning from different places, cultures, and operating environments to sharpen perspective, communication, and judgment.
Training
Using structured physical training to support focus, consistency, and long-term cognitive performance.