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: πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada

Residency: πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada


Experience

Smart Contract Engineer
Civitai
2025 - 2025
● Designed, wrote, and deployed smart contract based payment and billing infrastructure for AI image generation platform ● Provided operational security policy consulting regarding on-chain best practices ● Tested and created custom zkp2p integration, a zero-knowledge based on-ramp tool
Smart Contract Engineer
Theopetra Labs
2021 - 2024
● Managed development teams during multiple projects throughout the product life cycle ● Wrote, tested, & deployed smart contracts on Ethereum, zkSync, and Base in solidity ● Contributed to core protocol codebase, testing, and audit process; identified and fixed two critical bugs before deployment ● Drove down operational costs 10x by distributing payments through zkSync to L1 ● Migrated ERC-20 contract and liquidity to Base to drive user acquisition ● Built iBuyer, a custom escrow contract to automate real estate acquisitions using an optimistic oracle and zero knowledge proofs ● Managed deployments on mainnet as well as testnets and internal devnets ● Designed and built custom modeling & policy analysis tools in typescript ● Performed analysis using on-chain data to understand growth and user acquisition ● Simulated market data to analyze pricing mechanisms and suggest improvements; created financial models of the product’s economics ● Worked with product to redesign offering according to modeling, analysis, and market research ● Developed and maintained front ends using React & Node.js ● Built data pipelines and dashboards for key operational insights into on-chain data ● Partnered with operations to build and implement security policies and practices
Backend Developer
Braid
2021 - 2021
● Designed a peer to peer preprint archive using OrbitDB on IPFS as a database ● Implemented DAO stack including multisig, SourceCred, and Snapshot ● Designed and implemented the front end using React ● Built UI/UX wireframes and product design in Figma

Skills

backend
dao
data-science
defi
founding-engineer
javascript
python
research
technical-writer
solidity
english