ametel01

Protocol & Infrastructure Engineer

Protocol & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in ZK systems and cross-chain architectures. ~5 years of experience building blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and developer tooling across Starknet, EVM, and Aztec ecosystems. Focused on production-grade systems, protocol design, and developer experience.


Experience: 2 years

Yearly salary: $110,000

Hourly rate: $60

Nationality: 🇮🇹 Italy

Residency: 🌏 Remote


Experience

Software Engineer, Blockchain Infrastructure
Nethermind
2024 - 2026
Implemented Groth16 verifier in Cairo for Worldcoin bridge; Built Fossil, a ZK coprocessor for proving L1 blocks on Starknet; Designed Aztec tooling suite (fee abstraction, linter, AI-agent tooling); Ported Pawn and Hyperlane bridge contracts from Solidity to Cairo; Developed AggLayerZero PoC bridging AggLayer and LayerZero; Implemented Noble Vault smart contracts for PT/YT yield tokenization; Built AggSandbox (Rust CLI) for multichain dev environments; Developed x402 payment integration for Voyager (EVM + Starknet); Maintained voyager-verifier CLI and contributed to starknet-foundry.
Contributor (Rust Indexer for Starknet)
Apibara
2023 - 2023
Implemented event ingestion and processing components; Improved reliability of indexing pipelines.
Contributor (Starknet Game Engine)
Dojo Engine
2023 - 2024
Developed Dutch auction smart contracts; Integrated contract verification into CLI tooling.
Blockchain Developer
SithSwap
2022 - 2022
Built AMM smart contracts on Starknet (Cairo); Contributed to protocol architecture and performance optimization.

Skills

node
solidity
typescript
rust
english