ViFi
Leading smart contracts at Virtual Finance — pre-launch audit and roadmap, production readiness, and clear-eyed technical guidance for the founders.
Alchemix
Engineering manager for the v3 of the Alchemix protocol — core, strategy, and governance layers, recruiting the team, and shepherding it through multiple audits and audit competitions.
Polygon Labs
Built and led the smart contracts team serving all of Polygon — full contract suites for new products, maintenance and upgrades across the stack, triage when things caught fire.
Ethereum Cat Herders
Four-plus years herding a protocol nobody owns: EIP shepherding, official note-taking for All Core Devs (and more), multisig signer, and host of the Cat Herders podcast — guests like samczsun included.
Belisarius (0xa57)
Reverse-engineering a prolific MEV bot from raw bytecode — manual decompilation of an unverified contract, a public dataset in progress, and ongoing strategy reconstruction. Documented as it happens.
Tools & Nodes
I run things to understand them: Ethereum nodes and an indexer, IPFS and Swarm, Radicle. Lately that means the AI stack — harnesses, skills, MCP, local models via ollama and vLLM, libre frontends. If it ships, I'll spin it up.