kayakapagan

Blockchain Engineer / Internal Auditor

Smart Contract / Blockchain Engineer with experience in developing and maintaining smart contracts, backend services, and IoT solutions. Strong background in research and education, with a focus on algorithms and system performance optimization.


Experience: 4 years

Yearly salary: $90,000

Hourly rate: $50

Nationality: 🇹🇷 Turkey

Residency: 🇩🇪 Germany


Experience

Software Engineer
NBT AG
2022 - 2023
• Developed AWS Lambda functions for IoT backend services, built scalable backend solutions, and designed data-driven algorithms to optimize system performance.
Blockchain Engineer / Internal Auditor
Geode Finance
2021 - 2025
• Designed, developed, and maintained production-level smart contracts from inception, deploying V1 on Avalanche Chain, securing $4.5M TVL, then adapting them for Ethereum Proof of Stake (PoS) mechanism. • Implemented and reviewed the infrastructure consists of § 50+ Solidity contracts, (including upgradable contracts implemented with UUPS proxies) actively maintained and improved. • Conducted @ internal smart contract audits, optimizing gas costs and security to streamline external audit processes, reducing analysis time and improving audit depth. • Worked collaboratively with leading external auditing firms, including ConsenSys Diligence. • Developed a back-end service that listens to on-chain emitted events, processes the data, and renders it into charts, dashboards, and other user-friendly formats. • Implemented and reviewed an in-house oracle to monitor validator statuses and pricing. • Wrote and maintained € 650+ test cases, achieving 80%+ test coverage using Hardhat.
Software Engineer
Makinas
2021 - 2022
• Developed a CLI application and SDK for platform interaction, and built an automated ML training pipeline with Docker and YAML.
Teaching Assistant
Sabancı University
2018 - 2021
• Taught Python programming and problem-solving techniques to students over 3 academic years.

Skills

solidity
english