kandakarnan

Smart Contract Engineer

Smart Contract Engineer with 5+ years of
experience building DeFi protocols and
cross-chain systems. Specialized in
Solidity, protocol architecture, and DeFi
primitives including AMMs, vaults, yield
farming, staking, and cross-chain
infrastructure, with a strong focus on
security, scalability, and gas optimization.


Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $100,000

Hourly rate: $60

Nationality: 🇮🇳 India

Residency: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates


Experience

Lead Engineer
Asynchronus
2025 - 2026
Architected and built an AI-driven execution framework for autonomous on-chain decision making and strategy execution Designed and deployed yield farming, vault, and smart account systems across EVM and Solana ecosystems Built autonomous vault systems executing trading and prediction strategies using on-chain and external data Developed backend infrastructure for agent orchestration, real-time market ingestion, and execution pipelines
Tech Lead
Dfyn
2023 - 2025
Led development of Dfyn V2 Concentrated Liquidity AMM with onchain limit orders. Designed and implemented yield farming, staking, vesting and vault smart contracts Built BYOF (Build Your Own Farm) platform enabling automated yield farm deployment and management through configurable farm contracts Worked on StakeEase, a liquid restaking protocol built on EigenLayer, contributing to staking and yield infrastructure Led security audits, vulnerability fixes, and contract hardening processes Mentored engineers on smart contract design, testing, and security best practices Contributed to protocol scaling handling millions in liquidity and high transaction volume
Smart Contract Developer
Router Protocol
2021 - 2023
Built and maintained Router Protocol cross-chain infrastructure enabling asset transfers, swaps, and interoperability across EVM ecosystems, contributing to bridging, cross-chain messaging, and chain abstraction systems Developed and maintained bridge smart contracts powering cross-chain asset movement and execution workflows Built message intent systems for cross-chain communication and execution across networks Developed and integrated adapter contracts for third-party protocols, enabling external bridges, DEXs, and execution systems to interact with Router infrastructure Optimized smart contracts for gas efficiency, scalability, and secure cross-chain operations Led security audits, vulnerability remediation, and contract hardening processe

Skills

backend
node
react
rust
typescript
solidity
english