konrads
Senior Rust Engineer
Senior engineer specialising in blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, high-performance backends, with a current focus on Web3 (Solana, Ethereum, Polkadot). Extensive experience building blockchain data/api abstractions, protocol integrations, low-latency execution engines, regulatory risk engines in Rust, Go, Scala and Python. Prior background spans IoT and event-processing systems, big data engineering, dev team leadership, delivery of large-scale financial and media platforms.
Experience: 5 years
Yearly salary: $180,000
Hourly rate: $150
Nationality: 🇦🇺 Australia
Residency: 🇦🇺 Australia
Experience
Blockchain Software Engineer
Kraken 2025 - 2026
Centralized exchange infrastructure, in Rust. • Block ingestor, indexer, validator for on-chain data pipelines • GraphQL Blockchain API for normalized data interface • Node proxy (Envoy, Pingora) for uniform local node access
Rust Software Engineer
Keyrock 2023 - 2025
Market making services. • Meteora (Solana) based liquidity pool tracker • Zetamarkets (Solana) integration with the execution engine • EVM based generic Rhai strategy driven trading bot
Blockchain Engineer
Zetamarkets 2021 - 2023
Rust smart contracts and typescript tooling around Zetamarkets products. • Solana Rust smart contracts for DEX, VEX, FLEX products • Typescript SDKs and user facing examples • tooling comprising market maker, risk assessment, liquidity monitor, arbitrage bots • Go/AWS micro services for ZETA token airdrop
Skills
golang
polkadot
python
scala
solana
rust
english