cryptoxcraig
Blockchain Developer Β· Smart Contract Engineer Β· Backend Systems Β· De Fi Architect
Blockchain developer and serial Web3 founder with 5+ years of hands-on experience across Solana and EVM ecosystems. Co-founded and exited ArkiTech via acquisition after scaling a Telegram-native platform to 1.7 million users, with real-time on-chain transaction processing at its core. Hands-on experience with Uniswap V2/V3 integrations, CREATE2 and minimal proxy patterns, MEV protection via Flashbots, and Solidity security best practices. Currently Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Nexaris, a non-custodial stablecoin payments company built on GCP/GKE. Track record of taking products from zero to production with real user scale.
Experience: 5 years
Yearly salary: $150,000
Hourly rate: $100
Nationality: πΊπΈ United States
Residency: πΊπΈ United States
Experience
Co-Founder
ArkiTech 2023 - 2025
Co-founded and scaled a Telegram-native bot ecosystem to 1.7 million users β built for high-volume, real-time transaction processing across multiple concurrent services. Designed and deployed on-chain smart contract reward infrastructure integrated into a raid bot, handling automated ERC-20 token distributions triggered by user participation events with strict fund safety guarantees. Deployed Solana Token-2022 transfer hook programs to mainnet implementing whitelist-based transfer restrictions, role-based access patterns, and admin bypass logic β production contracts with real fund exposure. Architected a PostgreSQL-backed game engine across 18+ tables supporting a high-concurrency distributed system β covering player state, transaction ledgers, inventory, leaderboards, and treasury management.
Head of Development & Platform Lead
Defiant Platform 2021 - 2023
Joined as a community moderator and advanced to one of the top decision-making roles, outperforming a team of six across technical and operational responsibilities. Designed and deployed Solidity smart contracts for an EVM token launchpad on Ethereum and L2s β with rigorous security reviews, gas optimization, and automated test coverage prior to every deployment. Delivered ERC-20 and ERC-721 contract solutions for DeFi protocols, NFT projects, and token launches β prioritizing fund safety, reentrancy protection, and access control best practices. Provided technical consulting to crypto projects on EVM architecture, on-chain security, and smart contract design.
Skills
devops
solana
typescript
solidity
english