Summary
Blockchain Architect and Sr. Software Engineer with 8+ years across institutional Web3 infrastructure, DeFi protocols, and regulated financial systems. Designs and ships Solidity and Rust smart contracts on EVM chains and Solana — stablecoin custody and account-abstraction infrastructure, cross-chain strategy engines, insurance and structured-product protocols, and low-latency trading pipelines. PhD student in blockchain networks (distributed systems research, Advanced Aerial Mobility) at Polytechnique Montréal. Open to Blockchain Architect, Smart Contract Engineer, Solidity Developer, Solana Developer, and Rust Developer roles in Web3 — remote or Montreal.
Skills
- Solidity
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Solana
- EVM
- Smart Contracts
- DeFi
- Stablecoin Infrastructure
- Distributed Systems
- Anchor
- Foundry
- Hardhat
- Truffle
- ERC-20 / 721 / 4626 / 7540
- EIP-7702 Account Abstraction
- LayerZero / Stargate
- The Graph
- Geyser / NATS JetStream
- AWS / Terraform
- Trusted Execution Environments (TEE)
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Experience
Blockchain Architect — Contractor — Lazer Technologies
Jul 2025 — Present
Architecting institutional Web3 infrastructure across EVM and Solana clients.
- Bastion — Upgraded institutional account wallet infrastructure to EVM-sponsored transactions and batched custody operations. Designed migration from existing EOAs to EIP-7702 smart accounts.
- Bastion — Integrated custody account infrastructure with Coinbase Prime vaults: wallet provisioning, transfer authorization, and reconciliation against compliance gating (Sardine KYC/KYB, TRM Labs, jurisdiction enforcement, freeze controls).
- Bastion — R&D for the M0 protocol: yield-accruing, non-rebasing USD-backed stablecoin with permissioned access controls and tiered fee economics (0–15%) across six institutional segments.
- Solana Foundation — Researched Solana account model and token-extensions integration; produced migration phases for the Akash Network move to Solana alongside the Foundation head of engineering.
- Apeing — Led a team of 6; architected an end-to-end Solana trading pipeline with zero-copy Geyser ingestion over NATS JetStream, Redis + in-memory Rust data structures.
- Apeing — Designed a Rust Solana swap execution layer with an adapter-per-program architecture covering 11 DEXes and 12 launchpads, with Jupiter Metis aggregator fallback. Native instruction encoding (no SDK): manual Borsh layouts, PDA derivation, ALT lookup caching.
- Apeing — DevOps: Teraswitch bare-metal Linux namespaces, AWS Terraform microservices, Grafana Cloud + k6 load tests, Prometheus, stage/prod alerting.
- Apeing — Delivered an MCP server connecting Codex, Gemini, and Claude to project resources from a secured AWS/Doppler environment for agent-managed secrets.
Blockchain Architect — Contractor — Hypotenuse Labs
Mar 2024 — Jun 2025 · Remote, Canada
Led delivery across four client projects — spanning TEE-based privacy, Solana/EVM options, structured-product POCs, and ERC-404.
- PrismProtocol: Privacy-preserving Web3 ad network on Berachain — TEE-based on-chain targeting and sealed auctions. Led the engineering team; closed incubation with a $200k BuildaBera grant.
- Cega Finance: Optimized the Solana (SVM) options program to match the existing EVM protocol.
- Pye Finance: POC for a staking-bonds protocol (ERC-4626 / ERC-7540), Pendle-style, before the team pivoted to SVM.
- ERC-404 on Blast: Shipped an ERC-404 project — NFT on Mintify and $SWIM on a Thruster trading pool.
Lead Blockchain Engineer — Contractor (Part-time) — Moonvera
Sep 2023 — Mar 2025 · Dubai, UAE — remote
Built a low-latency Rust execution engine for multi-DEX Solana and led an NFT exchange & launchpad protocol.
- Solana execution engine: Low-latency Rust execution engine for multi-DEX Solana — Geyser streaming, lock-free hot path, native instruction encoding.
- NFT exchange & launchpad: An NFT exchange and launchpad shipped behind a static-analysis / unit / invariant / fuzz / integration testing pipeline.
Blockchain Solidity Engineer — 3Commas
May 2022 — Jan 2023 · Tallinn, Estonia — remote
Cross-chain DeFi strategy contracts over LayerZero and a delta-neutral vault on Optimism.
- Cross-chain DeFi strategies: Strategy core contracts for cross-chain swaps over LayerZero/Stargate across Optimism, Arbitrum, and BSC (GMX, Aave, Uniswap V3).
- Delta-neutral vault: A delta-neutral vault on Optimism, hedged on the Perps protocol via off-chain funding-rate signals.
Blockchain Solidity Engineer — Bright Union
Sep 2021 — Aug 2022 · Netherlands — remote
A crypto-coverage aggregation protocol and a yield-bearing insurance staking token.
- Solidity Crypto Insurance Aggregator Protocol: A Solidity aggregator reselling crypto cover from Nexus Mutual, Bridge Mutual, and InsurAce behind one contract and ABI, across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Polygon — with a subgraph, sale alerts, and an NPM resale SDK.
- Yield staking token: A yield-bearing token representing staking positions across Nexus Mutual, Bridge Mutual, and Insurace.
Software Engineer — Intact Financial
Feb 2018 — Apr 2019 · Montreal, Canada
Policy administration system and migration from AXA Insurance.
- Built insurance policy-administration systems in enterprise Java Spring Boot — direct exposure to regulated financial systems, policy lifecycle management, and accounting integrations.
- Delivered a POC to migrate the Spring Thymeleaf policy front-end to ReactJS.
Software Engineer — Filowifi Solutions
May 2017 — Apr 2018 · Montreal, Canada
- Delivered a free Wi-Fi logging page for Impactivate Networks (Atlantic City, USA).
- Fiber-optic office network installation and configuration across 5-story buildings.
Education
PhD — Blockchain Networks (part-time)
Polytechnique Montréal · 2024 — 27
Master's degree (M.Sc.) — Software & Industrial Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal · 2024 — 25
Diploma — Java Systems Development
Concordia University · 2016 — 17
Exchange Co-op — IT Project Management
McGill University · 2014 — 15
Bachelor of Business & IT Management
Monterrey Technology Institute · 2010 — 15