Unlimint.com - Blockchain Techlead

March 2023 - Present

• Architected and implemented protocol contracts both for Ethereum and Solana in solidity and rust (Anchor)
• Utilized LayerZero for cross-chain communication
• Managed a team of 2 blockchain developers implementing multi-chain solutions
• Architected and implemented Solana programs using Anchor framework for cross-chain asset transfers with 99.9% transaction success rate
• Designed custom PDAs (Program Derived Addresses) architecture for secure account management and token custody
• Developed complex SPL token integrations with metadata handling for cross-chain token representation
• Built optimized Solana programs with efficient compute unit usage, reducing transaction costs by 35%
• Implemented secure transaction validation using Solana's account validation constraints and CPI security checks
• Designed and implemented custom ERC4337 wallets using modern account abstraction stack

Pump.fun - Pet Project

March 2024 - August 2024

• Built a pump.fun bot which traded memecoins on pump.fun, solana
• Used typescript for the bot and rust for solana programs
• Utilized JITO for MEV opportunities
• Designed financial models which allowed me to make 100k+ in profit on memecoins during first month

BlasterSwap.com - Pet Project

Feb 2023 - Jun 2024

• Co-founded and CTO'ed a project on the Blast chain
• Forked Uniswap v2 and v3 and added custom features as toke WETH and USDB rebalancing
• Designed backend architecture for the project in golang
• Managed a team of 2 backend developers
• Built a custom tokenomics for the project
• The project held 25 mil usd in TVL

NFTfi.com - Solidity/Backend Developer

June 2022 - March 2023

• Designed a platform for NFT collateralized liquidity with pools and peer liquidity
• Implemented the protocol for both EVM and Solana ecosystems in solidity and rust (Anchor)
• Moved smart contracts to Diamond Standard for easy upgrades
• Utilized Assembly and Yul for gas optimizations
• Worked with ERC20, ERC721, Account abstraction and ERC4337 wallets
• Developed transaction-level error handling with custom instruction structures for reliable protocol operation
• The contract held 30,000,000 USD locked up in value, performed security audit with Halborn
• Implemented some backend services in node and golang for off-chain functionalities

Beefy.com - Senior Blockchain Developer

Oct 2020 - June 2022

• Worked on yeild farming protocol which held more than 1,000,000,000 USD in vaults
• Implemented Defi strategies for yield farming
• Worked with Aave, Compound, Curve, Uniswap, and more
• Migrated the protocol to Solana using the Anchor framework
• Performed code review, bugs fixes

Vivid.money - Senior Software Engineer

Sept 2018 - Sept 2020

• Wrote/tested microservices in Golang and NodeJS
• Used Rust for some backend services with high performance requirements
• Designed backend architecture for the payment protocol for B2B customers
• Increased service performance by splitting a monolith service into scalable microservices
• Worked with various crypto on-ramp providers for B2C services and got into Solidity

Deutsche bank - Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2017 - Sept 2018

• Wrote payment services in Golang
• Increased backend performance by 40% by finding a memory leak and fixing a few data races
• Performed code reviews

Georgia Tech

Master's degree in Computer Science (2020 - 2022)

Georgia, US

Gubkins State University of Oil and Gas

Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics (2016 - 2020)

Moscow, Russia