homicidalchickn
Smart Contract Engineer
HomicidalChicken on Discord and Twitter. B.A in sociology, economics. Governance nerd. Backend, data, and smart contract dev.Β
Recent projects:
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Library of Alexandria - AI docs tooling; Defi data analysis
Theopetra - Real estate tokenization
TriumphDAO - Public goods fundingΒ
Braid - DeSci Arxiv Infra
Experience: 4 years
Yearly salary: $180,000
Hourly rate: $100
Nationality: π¨π¦ Canada
Residency: π¨π¦ Canada
Experience
Smart Contract Engineer
Civitai 2025 - 2025
β Designed, wrote, and deployed smart contract based payment and billing infrastructure for AI image generation platform β Provided operational security policy consulting regarding on-chain best practices β Tested and created custom zkp2p integration, a zero-knowledge based on-ramp tool
Smart Contract Engineer
Theopetra Labs 2021 - 2024
β Managed development teams during multiple projects throughout the product life cycle β Wrote, tested, & deployed smart contracts on Ethereum, zkSync, and Base in solidity β Contributed to core protocol codebase, testing, and audit process; identified and fixed two critical bugs before deployment β Drove down operational costs 10x by distributing payments through zkSync to L1 β Migrated ERC-20 contract and liquidity to Base to drive user acquisition β Built iBuyer, a custom escrow contract to automate real estate acquisitions using an optimistic oracle and zero knowledge proofs β Managed deployments on mainnet as well as testnets and internal devnets β Designed and built custom modeling & policy analysis tools in typescript β Performed analysis using on-chain data to understand growth and user acquisition β Simulated market data to analyze pricing mechanisms and suggest improvements; created financial models of the productβs economics β Worked with product to redesign offering according to modeling, analysis, and market research β Developed and maintained front ends using React & Node.js β Built data pipelines and dashboards for key operational insights into on-chain data β Partnered with operations to build and implement security policies and practices
Backend Developer
Braid 2021 - 2021
β Designed a peer to peer preprint archive using OrbitDB on IPFS as a database β Implemented DAO stack including multisig, SourceCred, and Snapshot β Designed and implemented the front end using React β Built UI/UX wireframes and product design in Figma
Skills
backend
dao
data-science
defi
founding-engineer
javascript
python
research
technical-writer
solidity
english