cuteolaf

Rust Substrate Engineer

Full stack blockchain engineer with over 5 years of experience. Certified Rust/Substrate engineer, who worked on 4 projects granted by Web3 Foundation. Competitive programming enthusiast proficient in several programming languages. Quick learner and an active open source contributor.

Experience: 2 years

Yearly salary: $150,000

Hourly rate: $100

Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States

Residency: 🇨🇦 Canada

Experience

Contractor

Bittensor.ai

2025 - 2025

Architected the on-chain indexer and made some optimizations for real-time performance. Implemented the RESTful API endpoints with Django.

Contractor

Trusted Stake

2025 - 2025

Provided consultation for building the on-chain indexer and implementing the API services for the staking platform.

Contractor

General Tao Ventures

2025 - 2025

Implemented an on-chain indexer for the company's internal tooling to keep track of rewards for subnet owners and validators. Built a grafana dashboard to display metrics for monitoring the performance of their validator and subnet rewards.

Core Engineer

RegionX Labs

2023 - 2024

Design and implement the pallets for the RegionX parachain. Build the UI of the RegionX coretime marketplace.

Team Lead

Taostats

2023 - 2024

Provided consultation and implemented the backend service to build a block explorer for a Substrate-based network. Worked as the team lead and directed the development of the project.

Senior Blockchain Developer

Neural Internet DAO LLC

2023 - 2023

Provided consultation on Rust/Substrate and ink! smart contracts. Designed and implemented a proxy bot to provide automated delegation of TAO to Bittensor Network.

Substrate Developer

Fair Squares

2022 - 2023

A team of volunteers and Web3 enthusiasts actively building for a W3F grant project. Implement new pallets, write unit tests and provide inline documentation for each of them.

Senior Developer

Imbue Network

2022 - 2023

A decentralized crowdfunding platform & freelance marketplace built on top of Polkadot. Design and implement new pallets for the runtime.

Senior Frontend Engineer

Pixelcraft Studios

2022 - 2023

Responsible for implementing new UI elements for the well-known NFT P2E game. Interact with the smart contracts, subgraph and backend APIs.

Full Stack Blockchain Developer

Dystopia Labs

2022 - 2022

Design & Architect a Web3 event ticketing protocol & platform. Implement user interface of the platform and write unit tests.

Lead Blockchain Developer / CTO / Advisor

VineKross LLC

2021 - 2022

Build and maintain a decentralized application from scratch. Write smart contracts for NFT auctions, staking, loans, escrow and a freelance payment platform on the WAVES protocol.